Whack-a-mole Drug War: Central America needs aid and tough love to help fight organized crime OpEd from a Costa Rican

Kevin Casas-Zamora, a former vice president and minister of national planning in Costa Rica, is a senior fellow in the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution."

Central America drug trafficking: Central America needs aid and tough love to help fight organized crime - latimes.com: "Central America requires assistance from the international community in its struggle against organized crime, but it also needs a dose of tough love. Central Americans must accept that, just as only they could put an end to the region's civil wars two decades ago, they must also take responsibility for building modern states, overhauling law enforcement institutions and providing opportunities for young people. For Central America, merely asking the international community for support is not enough, nor is it acceptable.