The US Should Spray Herbicide on Colombia’s Deadly Cocaine Fields
(Left) U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 20, 2025. (Right) Colombian President Gustavo Petro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 19, 2024. Jim Watson, Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump cut aid to Colombia and called the country’s president, Gustavo Petro, an “illegal drug leader.” He said Petro was “strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia.” Trump made the comments in a Truth Social post on Oct. 19. He has a point.
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
