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Hola me ayudan con noticias sobre Colombia en inglés

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Trump maintains US emergency over Colombia drug traffickers

US President Donald Trump is maintaining a national emergency over the“extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy” posed by drug traffickers from Colombia.

The emergency status allows the US government to free up funds to protect threatened interests from actors that “cause an extreme level of violence, corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad,” the White House announced Monday.

The emergency status has been consistently maintained since 1995 and was due to expire on Tuesday.

Colombian and foreign drug traffickers have been trafficking cocaine to the US, the world’s biggest consumption market, since the 1970s and have long been considered targets in the so-called “War on Drugs.”

While since overtaken by drugs produced by pharmaceutical companies, the addictive white powder continues to be used as a party worldwide or as crack cocaine, particularly in the US.