Cocaine’s Flow Is Unchecked in Venezuela

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4. Chavez has created "one of the preferred trafficking routes,"

It's really scary what turning a blind eye for a second can do, but even more disconcerting how impotent and counter productive putting the traffickers in the spotlight can be.

The Mano Dura, makes a come back. Well it's always coming back, but here it is again...

Honduran President Puts “Tigers” Police Force on the Streets

TEGUCIGALPA, Aug 7 2012 (IPS) - The Honduran government’s plan to create a new rapid response police force, as part of a strategy to militarise the fight against crime, is dangerously vague, experts say.

The creation of the elite “Intelligence and Special Security Response Groups Unit” (whose acronym is Tigres, which means “tigers”) would undermine the process of demilitarisation of society that got underway in this impoverished, crime-ridden Central American nation 15 years ago.

Honduras is one of the most violent countries on earth. According to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report, there were 82 homicides for every 100,000 citizens in 2010, the highest homicide rate in the world. (In comparison, the United States had five homicides per 100,000.)

But experts consulted by IPS warned that the government plan was ambiguous, because the new force would fall under the ministry of security, but its training and centres of operations would be in the armed forces battalions, which answer to the ministry of defence.

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