Central America confronts narco-trafficking [Al Jazeera]
Drug gangs are expanding their smuggling operations in Central America. The United Nations has found that drug-related violence has risen sharply.
Al Jazeera’s Rachel Levin reports from Mexico City.
Transparency: Who’s Who in the Mexican Drug Wars
The ongoing drug trade in Mexico has been one of the nation’s chief concerns for some time now. But the level of gruesome violence has escalated to near catastrophic proportions since President Felipe Calderon took office in December, 2006, creating virtual ghost towns as people have sought refuge in safer states.
“For their part, the Salvadoran government and the FMLN are caught between the rock of desire to build stronger relations with El Salvador’s most important source of aid and foreign revenue—namely, Washington, D.C.—and the hard place of the highly-organized discontent that brought them to power in the first place.”
— Dispatch From El Salvador: Obama’s Drug War Feels Eerily Familiar [Colorlines, 3/31/11]
