US anti-drug policies caused Latin American 'genocide': Petro
Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) (AFP) - US anti-drug policies have caused a "genocide" of Latin Americans, Colombia's Gustavo Petro alleged Friday at a meeting of regional leaders on the Caribbean island of St Vincent and the Grenadines. "We have lived through a genocide of a million Latin Americans in the last half-century," the Colombian president told the annual summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). He blamed the United States for basing its drug strategy on "repression" and not on "prevention and public health." "The result could not be more d...