Patriots for Europe demands review of cooperation with Colombia due to its complicity with narco-dictatorships in Latin America

MEPs Hermann Tertsch and Jorge Martín Frías, from the Patriots for Europe group, have denounced in Brussels the Colombian government’s collusion with organised crime networks and have called on the European Commission to immediately review the EU’s funding for Colombia.

Both parliamentarians have submitted a written question to Kaja Kallas, Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in which they warn that Gustavo Petro’s executive ‘has expressed its unwillingness to combat drug trafficking by denying the existence of the Cartel de los Soles’ — an organisation designated as a terrorist group by the United States.

The complaint comes at a particularly critical moment, with Colombia experiencing a surge in violence not seen in decades. Murders of citizens, political leaders and members of the security forces are once again making daily headlines, while the Colombian government has chosen to look the other way.

They have also focused on Brussels’ responsibility, recalling that the European Union, ‘under the pretext of cooperation and the misnamed peace process — which has resulted in the institutionalisation of terrorists in Colombia —’ has transferred millions of euros to a supposed ‘peace’ that, in practice, has served to strengthen structures linked to Chavism and transnational crime.

‘All of this,’ they pointed out, ‘has favoured totalitarian forces, as evidenced by the attacks and murders committed by organised crime,’ highlighting the failure of the model promoted by international globalism.

In their letter, presented in early September, MEPs ask whether the Union can continue to finance a government that, far from combating transnational mafias, collaborates in their concealment; whether there is any urgent review of the cooperation policy with Colombia; and what concrete measures the Commission intends to take to prevent European taxpayers’ money from ending up in the hands of criminal groups.

The initiative is part of the oversight work that Patriots for Europe has been carrying out in the European Parliament, with the aim of exposing the links between Latin American narco-socialism and EU institutions. According to their allegations, these networks operate with the complicity of bureaucrats and globalist organisations which, far from defending freedom and the rule of law, protect regimes that are openly hostile to Europe and its values.