Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s florid speech to the UNGA on Sept. 19, talking up “peace” and “justice” for the black and brown peoples of the world, in fact promoted the two leading planks of the British financial empire’s Malthusian policy:
1) Force through the end of all use of fossil fuels for energy. Petro proposed the international financial system be reformed so as to “finance decarbonized capitalism … leaving coal and oil under the ground,” citing a Colombian indigenous activist that to take oil out is “to take the blood out of the earth and so life will die.”
2) End international sanctions against narcotics.
Petro has championed the legalization of all drugs since he was elected President in 2022, with the help of the House of Lords’ favorite drug legalizer, George Soros. He told the UNGA in 2022 that coal and oil are “more poisonous to human beings” than cocaine, protesting that “the ruling of those in power has decreed … [that cocaine] should be persecuted, even though it only leads to minimal deaths from overdosing … whereas coal and oil must be protected, even though their use could extinguish all, all of humanity.”
In his speech to the UNGA this year, Petro decried any “war on drugs,” and went so far as to assert that “the prohibition of drugs” is what created the fentanyl epidemic in the U.S. Two weeks before the UNGA, he convoked a three-day conference in Bogota with the aim of roping the rest of Ibero-America and the Caribbean into backing global drug legalization. The other head of state attending Petro’s Sept. 7-9 “Latin America and Caribbean Conference on Drugs: For Life, Peace and Development,” was Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who almost never travels outside of Mexico, but chose to attend in person to emphasize his backing for this project.
Representatives from 17 other countries also attended: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela. The carefully crafted declaration adopted at the meeting decries all kinds of things with which no one could disagree (fighting poverty, reducing violence, etc.), while stating the real aim: “to change the paradigm, recognizing the failure of the war against drugs.” It was agreed that a working group be set up to form a “Latin American Anti-Narcotics Alliance,” to walk into the 2025 International Summit on Drugs with a common position on changing existing global conventions against drugs.
Soros’s International Drug Policy Consortium endorsed the declaration. The Biden administration had already supported Petro’s efforts, by leaking at the end of August that Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine had sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration recommending that marijuana be reclassified from a Schedule I substance (with a high likelihood of abuse and no medical use) to Schedule III (with “moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence"). The clear message to other nations and local U.S. police departments: don’t bother policing marijuana.
