Saturday, April 01, 2006

Guatemala-- The Next Colombia?

The Washington Post recently ran an article about the growing drug trafficking problem in Guatemala. The head of the SAIA (their DEA equivalent) was recently arrested in the US along with two other top officials for their involvement. Because of their human rights abuses, the US has restricted aid to the country and combined with Mexico's increasingly successful fight against the narcotraficantes, Guatemala is quickly becoming the new route for importation into the US. I think that this trend highlights yet another problem in the US anti-drug strategy: you can't just focus efforts in one area because the drug dealers just move to another.

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