| ID | 122016 |
| Title Proper | Drug wars |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Crandall, Russell |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In June 2012, an American drug enforcement agent shot and killed a suspected drug trafficker during a raid on a smuggling operation in Honduras, the impoverished Central American country with the world's highest murder rate. Just a few weeks earlier, Honduran security officials, shadowed by US agents as part of Operation Anvil, accidentally killed four civilians, including two pregnant women, in the country's remote and now drugs-and-thugs-infested Mosquito Coast. These are only some of the more recent murky moments in the decades-long, US-led drug war in Latin America: a conflict that is highly controversial, expensive and far from over. Yet since the 'war on drugs' was launched by US President Richard Nixon in 1971, there have been few episodes in which a US operative on the ground has killed someone as part of the conflict. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 55, No.4; Aug-Sep 2013: p.229-240 |
| Journal Source | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 55, No.4; Aug-Sep 2013: p.229-240 |
| Key Words | Colombia ; United States ; Terrorism ; Conflict Resolution ; Insurgency ; Drugs Trade |