The Mexican President will arrive in the afternoon at the Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport, in the city of Cali, where this meeting will take place in which proposals will be sought from the different entities and representatives of 15 countries to define a roadmap for a world summit that will define the policy reconsidered. of drugs.
López Obrador will hold a meeting with Colombian President Gustavo Petro, with whom he shares the view that the drug war is failing.
The Colombian President affirms that the war on drugs has failed, which is why he considers it necessary to establish a new approach in the fight against drugs, changing the focus of efforts and promoting his state policy entitled “Of the War on Drugs to care” means life
Likewise, in 2019, the Mexican president assured that the main task of his government was to ensure public security and not to strategize operations to arrest drug lords.
“That’s what’s important to me: reducing the number of murders, reducing the number of robberies, the fact that there are no kidnappings. That’s the basic, not the spectacular. “A lot of time was wasted on this and nothing was solved,” the president said of the fight against drug trafficking in Mexico.
It is expected that this meeting will be the beginning of a regional process of dialogue and participation based on the principle of common and shared responsibility and will be an example to the international community with a new vision that promotes life, peace and development above war.
Participating nations included Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela, among others, which included a group of observers joined countries.
The initiatives and proposals arising from the meeting are presented to the two rulers, who are responsible for the conclusions.
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