Despite supporting efforts to achieve lasting peace in Colombia, US will continue to persecute drug smugglers who owe this country and they will try to ensure that their crimes, like other criminals, do not go unpunished.
This is what a State Department spokesperson told this newspaper when answering a question from EL TIEMPO on the subject: National reconciliation plan proposed by President Gustavo Petro and a way for drug traffickers and other criminals to rejoin society, he said.
“The United States supports efforts to find durable solutions that will lead to peace across Colombia and condemns those who, through drug trafficking, undermine Colombia’s hard-won peace deal,” the spokesperson said.
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According to the State Department, the Joe Biden administration “has a strong interest in bringing drug traffickers to justice and preventing impunity for acts by terrorists and other illegal armed groups.”
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The answer makes it clear that such a possible law does not include sanctions against drug traffickers, terrorists and other illegal armed groups, It will not be supported by the USA.
Likewise, even if there are sanctions, The USA will not give up on legal processes There are things in this country that exist against some.
SERGIO GOMEZ MASERI
EL TIEMPO correspondent
Washington
on Twitter @sergom68
Source: Exame
