Petro wins and loses battles in his efforts to change the course of drug policy. The Colombian government has taken steps to leave prohibition behind, but faces a great challenge in replacing illicit economies.

Gustavo Petro's government, in two weeks, has celebrated two very different victories in its drug policy, which has been failing for half a century in an endless war. On the one hand, he managed to push for the modification of an important international resolution so that this war has a more public health and less prohibitionist approach. Days later the military authorities were celebrating the largest cocaine seizure of the year in the Caribbean.