A notable increase in lawlessness, corruption and violence, fueled by record cocaine production and heightened poverty, has marred the four-year term of outgoing Colombian President Ivan Duque. Not only have massacres, violent crime, poverty and cocaine production surged during Duque’s term but the incidence of petroleum theft in Colombia is spiraling higher. Washington’s habitual ramping-up of efforts to combat cocaine trafficking, which has long been a key source of income for Latin America’s criminal syndicates, is forcing…
