What Colombia’s swing left means for the U.S.
Sunday's election of leftist Gustavo Petro as Colombia's next president could change the course of the country's relationship with the United States.
Catch up quick: Petro, who will become Colombia’s first leftist leader, campaigned on several promises that run counter to years of U.S.-Colombia relations.
On the illegal drug trade, Petro has said the U.S. policy in Latin America, which has focused on the eradication of crops and the extradition of cartel leaders, has "categorically failed."
On migration, the future of a deal that allows the Biden administration to send some Venezuelan migrants to Colombia is unclear.
What they're saying: Those policy differences will “likely end a two-decade-long bipartisan consensus behind support for Colombia in the U.S. Congress," O'Neil tells Axios Latino.
