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Colombia volition proceed to enactment with the United States to combat drug trafficking utilizing Washington’s quality and technology, the South American federation said on Monday (January 5, 2025).
“The authorities of Colombia has fto the U.S. authorities cognize … that we are going to support coordinating and cooperating successful the combat against cause trafficking,” Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said successful a video with Justice Minister Andres Idarraga sent to journalists by the government.
U.S. President Donald Trump connected Sunday (January 4) called his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro “sick” and said a U.S. subject cognition successful the state was possible.
Over the weekend, U.S. troops entered Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro, who on Monday (January 5) pleaded not blameworthy in a New York tribunal to narco-terrorism charges.
Mr. Benedetti said that Colombia’s anti-drug operations would people cause laboratories, transgression organisations and their camps.
“We volition proceed to stress the combat against this scourge, peculiarly connected the Colombian-Venezuelan border,” Mr. Idarraga said.
Colombia has criticized Trump’s Sunday (January 4) comments and said immoderate imaginable U.S. incursion would beryllium “undue interference.”
Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez said determination was a “golden opportunity” to fortify planetary collaboration against cause trafficking.
The U.S. is pressuring Colombia to ramp up its combat against cause trafficking arsenic cultivation of the coca leaf, the earthy worldly used to marque cocaine, has jumped successful caller years.
Mr. Petro’s authorities maintains that it has seized unprecedented levels of cocaine including astir 1,000 metric tons in 2025.
