U.S. anti-drug policies caused Latin American 'genocide': Colombia's Gustavo Petro

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U.S. anti-drug policies caused Latin American 'genocide': Colombia's Gustavo Petro

U.S. 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 s…