Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to legalize cocaine to combat drug trafficking in Colombia. You read that right. President Petro is suggesting that cocaine should be legalized. The ...

Bogota — Cocaine "is no worse than whiskey" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro during a live broadcast of a government meeting.

Colombia remains the world’s top cocaine producer, and each year the South American country breaks new records. Coca crops ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said during a government meeting on Wednesday that cocaine is only kept illegal around the world because of its origins in South America, comparing it to alcohol.

According to Raw Story, Colombian President Gustavo Petro recently declared that cocaine was “no worse than whiskey” during an live broadcast of a government meeting. As shocking as that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that “cocaine is no worse than whisky” as the production of ...

Colombia’s former foreign minister has accused the country’s leftist president Gustavo Petro of ... the world’s top cocaine producer, served as Petro’s first foreign minister for nearly ...

A former top minister and once-ally publicly accused Colombia’s president of being a drug addict yesterday, a charge leftist Gustavo ... During Petro’s tenure, Colombia’s cocaine production ...

A separate exchange took place in December of that year when a co-conspirator traveled to the Czech Republic to examine weapons that would be traded for cocaine to be imported to the U.S ...

The Gulf Clan was born out of the right-wing paramilitary groups that fought leftist guerrillas in the 1990s before turning their attention to the cocaine trade. President Gustavo Petro has ...