BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government on Thursday criticized as "hurtful" a new song from French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's new album for a reference one song makes to Colombian cocaine.
The album, titled "As If Nothing Had Happened," has yet tobe released, but contains one song with the lyrics: "You are mydrug. More lethal than heroin from Afghanistan and moredangerous than Colombian cocaine," according to Frenchnewspaper Le Figaro.
"Since this is coming from the mouth of the president'swife, we consider this statement very hurtful to Colombia,"said Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo. "These kinds of thingshappen when you mix politics with art; we deeply regret it."
Araujo himself was kidnapped for six years by Colombia'sFARC rebels, who use funds from the cocaine trade to financetheir four-decade-old insurgency. Colombia is the world'slargest producer of cocaine.
The album is Bruni's third since turning from top model tomusician, and her first since she married French PresidentNicolas Sarkozy in February.
France is involved in efforts to try to broker an agreementto free former Colombian presidential candidate IngridBetancourt, a citizen of both France and Colombia who has beenheld hostage by the FARC for more than five years.
"Instead of offering an apology for consuming, we hope thatthe whole world joins us in the fight against drugs," Araujosaid.
(Reporting by Alisha Laventure in Bogota; Editing by EricBeech)
