As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM

WHEN he was president, Donald Trump stacked the Supreme Court and the federal courts with right-wing lawyers screened and put forward by the extreme-right Federalist Society.
That approach, top Trump operatives have decided, is not going to be enough to satisfy Trumpites if their master wins the 2024 election.
The press has reported that exchanges between Stephen Miller, who designed the programme that ripped apart immigrant families, and other top Trump movers and shakers stipulate that in a second Trump administration, right-wing lawyers alone will not do the trick. What they need is lawyers willing to toss out the US constitution entirely.

The US could imminently return to the Wild West days of widespread and sometimes violent corporate repression of workers, says MARK GRUENBERG


