Out entire country (I'm Colombian) has been screwed over to hell and back in no small part because of the whims of a schizophrenic and sociopathic superpower that has a population that sure loves to gets high but their chosen elites like to hold on to some retrograde sense of moral superiority by fighting a public health issue as if it was a war.

While I'm not going to claim that Colombia would be some paradise if not for the war on drugs, it has been the main fuel for a conflict that has left 450.000 dead and countless atrocities that often rivaled anything ISIS ever did.

There's so much money in this business and you know what money buys? power. Petro is maybe the only Colombian president in recent decades that hasn't had at least some indirect ties to drug traffickers (and even then that's not 100% sure).

How can a country ever progress and develop when you have so much money flowing into the most criminal and corrupt politicians, which they then us to rise to the top and take over the state, as well as funding endless bloodshed because people will kill each other for control for such a massive business, that's just the way humanity works.

So an entire country of 50 fucking million people has been submerged in utter horror for decades in no small part because of the whims of some callous super power whose leaders just don't want to admit their people love getting high out of their mind.

And that's the relatively good powerful country, compared to China and Russia. Humanity is truly fucked.

There's no chance in hell Colombia or even a coalition of most of Latin America could pressure the US into ending this horrible crime but at least it's refreshing to see Petro say the way things are.

Here in Colombia there's this notion pushed by the past decades by far right governments and their aligned media that drug trafficking is just sort of a force of nature that just is and we have to live with and that we have to keep fighting and shedding blood and they proudly announce when they capture or kill yet another kinging as if doing away with some regional manager at Walmart is going to end the retail business. It's utter insanity.

So if we will have to spend the remainder of our days under the boot of this callous super power that takes away our sovereignty and ability to even try to solve this massive internal conflict, while cynically calling us equal partners, then if nothing else I like a president that says it like it is, and no more cynical, far right pieces of shit talking about being hard on drug traffickers when everyone knows one way or another they benefit from that business.