{"id":42468,"date":"2025-02-07T16:39:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=42468"},"modified":"2025-02-07T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:39:45","slug":"deranged-leftist-colombian-president-gustavo-petro-claims-cocaine-is-no-worse-than-whiskey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=42468","title":{"rendered":"Deranged Leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro Claims \u2018Cocaine Is No Worse Than Whiskey\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Far-leftist Gustavo Petro is now defending Cocaine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Colombia\u2019s Gustavo Petro has the \u2018perfect\u2019 resum\u00e9 for a Latin American far-leftist leader. Petro is a former member of the M-19, a Marxist guerrilla group in Colombia, known for its militant actions, including the killing of officials, kidnappings, attacks on government buildings, and other violent activities.<\/p>\n

The M-19 was involved in the bloody 1985 siege of Colombia\u2019s Palace of Justice, which resulted in the deaths of 94 people, including nearly half of the country\u2019s Supreme Court justices.<\/p>\n

After he joined the M-19 at the age of 17, Petro was reportedly primarily involved in stockpiling stolen weapons.<\/p>\n

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While the Colombian leader has left the armed revolutionary struggle for a political career, he still operates like the far-left Marxist that he is.<\/p>\n

Recently he has been in US headlines for his pitiful attempt at tackling President Donald J. Trump\u2019s threat of tariffs unless Colombia takes their illegal migrants back when deported.<\/p>\n

Petro has said that \u2018Colombia is the heart of the world\u2019 and, for a moment, there, vowed to reciprocate and impose 50% tariffs on the United States in retaliation for Trump\u2019s sanctions.<\/p>\n

But right after many Colombian civil society organizations started to organize protests demanding Petro\u2019s impeachment, it was reported that he gave up on trying to resist the demands and accepted the Trump administration\u2019s terms regarding the deportations of illegal migrants.<\/p>\n

Since then, Petro continues to behave like a mini-Fidel Castro, railing against Trump, calling him a \u2018fascist\u2019, comparing him to Hitler, and accusing him of representing \u2018white slavery\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Gustavo Petro \/ Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Read: UPDATE: Colombia\u2019s President Gustavo Petro Caves to Trump\u2019s Strategic Pressure \u2014 Orders Plane to Scoop Up Deportees in a Desperate Bid to Save Face<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now he is back with some more pure nonsense: Cocaine, Petro states, \u2018is no worse than whiskey\u2019 and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America.<\/p>\n

The Colombian President said that during a live TV broadcast of a government meeting.<\/p>\n

Colombia, as we all know, is the world\u2019s biggest cocaine producer and exporter, with the deadly \u2018product\u2019 being trafficked mainly to the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n

CBSNews<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring a six-hour ministerial meeting \u2014 broadcast live for the first time ever \u2014 the leftist president said \u2018cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whiskey\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Scientists have analyzed this. Cocaine is no worse than whiskey\u2019, he added, suggesting that the global cocaine industry could be \u2018easily dismantled\u2019 if the drug were legalized worldwide.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018If you want peace, you have to dismantle the business (of drug trafficking)\u2019, he said. \u2018It could easily be dismantled if they legalize cocaine in the world. It would be sold like wine\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Petro argued that fentanyl \u2018is killing Americans and it is not made in Colombia.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Fentanyl was created as a pharmacy drug by North American multinationals\u2019 and those who consumed it \u2018became addicted\u2019, he added.<\/em><\/p>\n

[\u2026] Cocaine production in Colombia reached a record-high in 2023, jumping 53 percent to 2,600 tons, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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WINNING! Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urges All His Country\u2019s Illegal Aliens to Return Home \u2018Immediately\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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