“Which is more poisonous to humans, cocaine or charcoal? Or oil? The rhetorical questions were asked this Tuesday by the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, in his first speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
Petro, who was elected in June of this year and who is the first left-wing president of Colombia, had a passionate speech, anchored in two central reflections: “The war on drugs has failed” and “The fight against the drug crisis has failed.” climatic”. From then on, he continued to legitimize and devalue the harmful impacts of cocaine production and distribution:
The dictates of power have dictated that cocaine is ‘the’ poison and must be prosecuted, even though it causes minimal overdose deaths and more. [óbitos] by the mixtures caused by the ordering of its secrecy, and, instead, ordered that coal and oil be protected, even though their use could extinguish all humanity.
Although he defends that drug use must be combated, with a new strategy to confront drug trafficking, Gustavo Petro understands that the fight against drugs has to follow “another path”. And he accused Western countries of persecuting “plants with poisons, to hide the disasters of their own societies”; while looking for “more and more coal, more and more oil, to calm another addiction: that of consumption, energy, money.”
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Source: Observadora
