The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, denounced this Friday the rights violations committed in the name of combating drug trafficking and announced that he would request the appointment of a special rapporteur for the Pacific and the Caribbean at the United Nations, given the growing tensions between Washington and Caracas over the US military operation in the region.
“It is in no way acceptable that the fight against drug trafficking includes human rights violations such as systematic murders by officials. An international committee of lawyers must be organized,” demanded the president in a publication on his account on the social network X.
In this regard, Petro recalled that the Human Rights Commission is already considering that “the fight against drugs does not entail human rights violations” and has called for the creation of a special rapporteur “for the cases in the Caribbean and the Pacific”, a proposal that he himself will officially present to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
This announcement came after United States President Donald Trump threatened his Colombian counterpart on Wednesday, declaring that “he will be next” in his alleged campaign against drug trafficking, currently focused on Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela.
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