REUTERS
The narcos...especially the Zetas...have actually built-up infrastructure...roads, bridges and airstrips in the remote Peten jungle and other isolated parts of Central America...to better move their drugs.
Now...the army has finally moved-in...but they say they are outgunned by the better equipped narco gangs.
And the hard right...'mano dura'...retired general and leading candidate for president, Otto Perez...wants to expand the army.
"We share 594 miles of border with Mexico where the weapons, money and drug traffickers enter ... "That's why I want 2,500 more soldiers," Perez said.
"In crisis, politicians resort to tough-sounding, but ultimately not very effective, solutions," said a USA observer. "The situation in Guatemala is much worse than Mexico in nearly in every way."
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