US designates Colombia as failing to cooperate in the drug war for first time in nearly 30 years
FILE - Laundry dries on a clothesline in the middle of a coca field on a hillside of the Micay Canyon, southwestern Colombia, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
MIAMI (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in almost 30 years, a stinging rebuke to a traditional U.S. ally that reflects a recent surge in cocaine production and fraying ties between the White House and the country’s leftist president.
Even as it determined that Colombia had failed to comply with its international counternarcotics obligations, the Trump administration issued a waiver of sanctions that would have triggered major aid cuts, citing vital U.S. national interests.
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