DEA brings deadly force to Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

DEA brings deadly force to Honduras

Will Washington’s ‘Operation Anvil’ drive drug traffickers elsewhere?
Nick Miroff July 15, 2012 06:00

When the Central American country with the largest US military presence — Honduras — also became the region’s preferred landing zone for international cocaine traffickers, it was probably inevitable that someone was going to get hurt.

But a recent series of lethal encounters along the muddy riverbanks and crude airstrips of Honduras’ isolated Mosquitia region may be shaking up the entire drug war fight in Central America, and shift smuggling routes elsewhere.

US agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have moved aggressively in recent weeks against trafficking suspects in Honduras. Agents swooped down in helicopters and killed two alleged smugglers in separate incidents on June 23 and July 3.

The shootings are the first known instances of DEA agents killing suspected traffickers in Central America since the agency began conducting joint operations with local security forces. In both cases, US officials said the agents fired in self-defense after the alleged traffickers made threatening gestures or appeared to reach for a weapon.

More:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/120713/honduras-dea-killings-operation-anvil-drug-war

[PDJane]

1. All it will do is make the people despise the US.

It has nothing to do with the drug war, not really. It's another example of misplaced imperial force.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Yup. It used to be "commies" we had to destroy. After Reagan made the world safe again

by getting Russia to give up, we couldn't keep pretending we had to chase "commies" around and smite them, since there weren't any "commies" left. Good ol' Ronnie defeated them!

That's why we can never see the end of the drug war. We'd have no reason to keep crashing into other peoples' countries.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Odd how the DEA and the big drug lords follow each other around, ain't it?

And the cocaine just keeps on flowing.

Connecting the dots...

"When the Central American country with the largest US military presence — Honduras — also became the region’s preferred landing zone for international cocaine traffickers, it was probably inevitable that someone was going to get hurt." --from the OP (my emphasis)

I mean, I know there were a whole lot of dirty motives in the U.S.-supported coup in Honduras. But consider this: NOW it's a major cocaine route!