U.S. military continues militarization in Latin America against drug traffickers

Presstv.ir reported that the US continues to militarize all of Latin America, spending enormous amounts of cash in order to prop up obedient regimes, train armies and militias, build new military bases, deploy more troops, and keep the military industrial complex fat and happy. “In the most expensive initiative in Latin America since the Cold War”, reports the Associated Press, “the U.S. has militarized the battle against the traffickers, spending more than $20 billion in the past decade”.
“US Army troops, Air Force pilots and Navy ships outfitted with Coast Guard counternarcotics teams are routinely deployed to chase, track and capture drug smugglers”, while Washington is simultaneously “training not only law enforcement agents in Latin American nations, but their militaries as well, building a network of expensive hardware, radar, airplanes, ships, runways and refueling stations”, and justifying it all under the drug war….. Read Article