Drug wars work their way into El Salvador

This latest from McClatchy News Service about the drug wars infiltrating El Salvador and Central America, forwarded to our blog by Father Peter Hinde:

Washington has spent billions of dollars to help push drug cartels out of Colombia, and to confront them in Mexico. Now they've muscled their way into Central America, opening a new chapter in the drug war that almost certainly will exact further cost on U.S. taxpayers as American authorities confront drug gangs on a new frontier.The extent of the infiltration is breathtaking. Drug cartels now control large parts of the countries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, the so-called Northern Triangle of Central America. They've bought off politicians and police, moved cocaine processing laboratories up from the Andes, and are obtaining rockets and other heavy armament that make them more than a match for Central America's weak militaries.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/21/112617/drug-gangs-muscle-into-new-territory.html#ixzz1KGUcdZzj