Planned policy shifts under Colombia's new leftist President Gustavo Petro represent a 'huge opportunity' in the fight against deforestation and climate change, United States official Samantha Power said on Monday.
Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development , Juan Gonzalez, Special Assistant to U.S. President Joe Biden, and Gregory Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, attend a news conference of the presidential delegation of the U.S. for the inauguration of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Bogota, Colombia, August 8, 2022.
Power made the comments after she led the Biden administration's delegation at Petro's Sunday swearing-in ceremony."What we have now is a president and a vice president, who view themselves as environmentalists - almost first," Power said. "We view that as a huge opportunity." Petro has long decried the U.S.-led war on drugs as a failure and called in his speech on Sunday for a new international strategy to deal with the narcotics trade.
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