Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as federal prosecutors in New York probe his alleged ties to drug traffickers, according to people familiar with the matter and records seen by The Associated Press.
It appears they are trying to smear him with collaberation with drug dealers for his negotiations to end the decades long insurgencies in that country by making peace with the rebel groups.
The far right is actively coordinating with their RW paramilitary groups out there, which the CIA set up originally, and probably still helps, to fight FARC, the renegade Jesuit Priests that saw the abuses of the state and took up arms. Now since disbanded in the peace deals, their offshoot the ELN I think it is is still fighting, and both they and the rw paramilitary groups sell cocaine to fund their insurgencies and counterinsurgencies.