The Trump administration added Colombia to a list of countries failing to cooperate in the war on drugs for the first time in nearly 30 years.
The designation reflects the deteriorating relations between the United States and one of its closest Latin American allies. Trump’s vision has repeatedly clashed with that of the left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, whose soft-handed approach to cocaine production has failed to stop the skyrocketing of cocaine cultivation. In a presidential determination, Trump laid the deterioration in relations squarely at Petro’s feet.
Soldiers patrol a street in El Carmelo, Colombia, a day after a deadly attack on a police station that authorities blame on a dissident faction of the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. (AP
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