Colombian President Gustavo Petro used his UN General Assembly speech Tuesday to blast President Donald Trump’s anti-drug policy as violent, ineffective, and rooted in domination rather than public health.
Petro argued that Colombia has achieved record cocaine seizures and extraditions under his government, yet Trump “decertified” the country, a move he called unjust and politically motivated.
Petro denounced U.S. missile strikes in the Caribbean that he said killed unarmed Colombian youths under the false pretense of stopping traffickers. He insisted his approach—voluntary crop substitution and anti-trafficker enforcement—was more humane and effective than militarized crackdowns.
He also alleged that Trump’s foreign policy toward Colombia, Venezuela, and the Caribbean was influenced by Colombian politicians connected to drug mafias and paramilitaries.
“This is why I speak to you as a decertified president — I’ve been decertified by President Trump without him having any right to do this, a human right or a divine right or any sensible reason,” Petro said.
He continued, saying the anti-drug policy was not meant to stop cocaine going into the U.S.
“The anti-drug policy is to dominate the people of the south as a whole,” Petro said. “You shouldn’t look at the drugs. You should look at who has the power and who dominates.”
The United Nations has a long history of anti-Israel bias, but since Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, critics charge the world body has gotten worse.
Employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) were found to have participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and members of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (COI) have been accused of propelling anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and releasing biased attacks on Israel.
Even the U.N. Department of Global Communications, the U.N. media support wing, has come under fire for spreading anti-Israel hate.
Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and president of Human Rights Voices Anne Bayefsky told Fox News Digital in April that the U.N. has become an “assembly line of lies, hate speech, incitement to violence, and antisemitism.”
Despite the criticism, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pushed for the continuation of UNRWA’s work and has refused to censure those voices including Francesca Albanese.
