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U.S. officials believe that as mush as 50% of narco traffic now passes thru Central America, aka the
"Northern Triangle".
OPPENHEIMER: "Fifteen years after the end of Central America’s civil wars, this region is once again becoming the world’s most violent place, and a major source of drug trafficking, organized crime and illegal immigration to the United States.
According to United Nations estimates, more than 15,000 people a year are dying in drug and human trafficking-related violence in Central America.
Honduras is already the world’s most violent country, with a homicide rate of 67 per 100,000 people a year, four times higher than Mexico’s, the weekly The Economist reported recently."
FOR MORE: B. Booth reports on how the three governments are creating a multinational security plan to cope with narco traffickers...and what they want from the USA.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/obama-to-visit-region-beset-by-drug-smuggling/2011/03/19/AB94PH2_story.html
