Officially sworn into office this past Sunday, August 7, 2022, Colombia’s newest leader, President Gustavo Petro, is currently calling for a “war on drugs” reevaluation. Giving his word to ban all new oil projects and protest all forms of inequality, the former Bogota mayor spoke to a large group of Colombian citizens about the current state of drugs within their country: “We need a new global convention that accepts the war on drugs has failed. It has left a million dead Latin Americans during 40 years of destruction and it leaves 70,000 North Americans dead by overdose each year… I do not want two countries, just as I do not want two societies. I want a strong, just, and united Colombia.”
Colombia’s New President Fears ‘War on Drugs’ is Unsuccessful
