2025-09-17
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President Trump declares war on drugs, warning cartels their days are numbered.
And you know what?
We're telling the cartels right now we're going to be stopping them too.
They killed 300,000 people in our country last year and we're not letting it happen anymore.
Welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Sam Fenwick.
Donald Trump has taken fresh action to stem the growing flow of Colombian cocaine into the United States.
But is Colombia's President Gustavo Petro right to claim it's no worse than whiskey?
And as Hollywood mourns Robert Redford, we reflect on the mark he left on the business of film.
So the United States has accused Colombia of failing to curb record cocaine production.
Washington has formally decertified the country from its list of states which are fully cooperating with the US-led counter-nocotic effects.
It's its toughest move since the 1990s and likely to hit the Colombian economy through tourism,
private investment,
as well as international loans and support from institutions like the World Bank.
Now Bogotá has hit back,