US puts Colombia on list for not helping with drug fight

The Trump government added Colombia to a list of countries that don't help fight drugs. This happened for the first time in almost 30 years.

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The US government put Colombia on a list of countries that don't help fight drugs. This is the first time since 1997. Colombia has more cocaine production now.

Coca plants grew three times more in ten years. The Colombian president Gustavo Petro doesn't want to use the same methods as before. He stopped destroying coca plants by hand.

The US and Colombia don't agree about how to fight drugs. Before they were good friends, but now they have problems.

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