What can observers take from events in Peru? And what takeaways are relevant for Colombia’s upcoming 2022 elections, and for economic and civil liberty more broadly in the Americas? Daniel Raisbeck has some prescient observations.
"There has been a lot of progress," said Lagos. "In Chile, the fact that [legalizing] the personal consumption of medicinal cannabis is being discussed is a sign of progress."
Trump has railed against the spike in coca cultivation in Colombia, focusing on drug trafficking and the Venezuela crisis while largely ignoring the country's peace process.
At the U.N., Duque reiterated his commitment to crack down on illicit coca production, strengthen the country’s peace process, and find a solution to the Venezuelan crisis.