So far, the gangsters are not only winning, they’re on a tear.
Central America’s people are paying a huge price to satisfy their northern neighbor’s insatiable demand for cocaine. As Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, told a Pentagon briefing recently, the northern triangle formed by El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala has become possibly the most violent place in the world.
Grim statistics back him up. “If you look at Iraq in 2010, the violent deaths per 100,000, according to U.N. numbers, was 14 per 100,000,” Gen. Fraser said. “In Honduras, it was 77 per 100,000. In El Salvador, it was 71 per 100,000.”
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