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Colombia's president wants to break new ground in combating the global drug problem Gustavo Petro in Colombia demands international cooperation in fighting drugs.The war against the drugs led by the United States failed.But this gets the President of powerful interest groups in the way - both in Colombia and the USA. An anti-drug police officer sprays in Tumaco in Southwest Colombia's Coka perennials with herbicide at the end of 2020.Despite years of massive health -damaging spray campaigns, cocaine production in Colombia has continued to increase significantly.Ivan Valencia / AP When Gustavo Petro kept his inaugural speech as President of Colombia last Sunday, a demand internationally attracted attention: the war against drugs had failed, explained the first left -wing President of Colombia for many years.It is time for a new international agreement.Because in the forty years, the previous war had led to the murder of one million people in Latin America."Will we wait for another million Latin Americans to be murdered and until the number of drug deaths in the United States rises to 200,000 per year?»