Whack-a-mole: America's Third War: Fighting Drug Cartels in Guatemala

Damn! The more we whack those moles the more they spread! For once, we agree with Fox News, but we would move the apostrophe in their title one letter to the right. This is the U.S.'s third war, the Americas' War.  

America's Third War: Fighting Drug Cartels in Guatemala - FoxNews.com: "While Mexico touts the killing as another drug kingpin taken care of, Guatemala, Mexico’s neighbor to the south, is worried about what this success might mean for its own safety. The country fears that the cartels will move south across a porous border using Guatemala as a new base for their operations. ...

Now there is evidence that one of Mexico’s most vicious cartels, the Zetas, are setting up bases in Guatemala as they come under increasing pressure from Felipe Calderon’s government. The Zetas have set up training camps and are trying to intimidate Guatemalan cartels. So far they’ve forced at least one Guatemalan drug family to leave the country. ...

Guatemala has long served as one of the main transit points for cocaine into the U.S. The drug arrives by sea from Colombia and Ecuador and then travels by land through Mexico into America. Last year, between 285 and 350 metric tons of cocaine transited Guatemala."Dec. 13, 2010