Central America emerges as transhipment nexus for drugs flowing to USA

By World Tribune on May 23, 2012   Americas, Columnists, COMMENTARY, Exclusives, John Metzler, Top Stories, U.S. Culture, U.S. Economy  

John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A generation ago many Central American countries faced death and destruction from aggressive left-wing insurgencies battling governments in places like El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. Today while these countries have evolved into reasonably representative democracies, a new tide of violence “born of transnational organized crime and drug trafficking,” plagues […]