Guatemala army destroying clandestine airstrips

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Stopping cocaine: U.S. radar spots planes, Guatemalan army destroy the airstrips
Apr 2, 2006
JUAN CARLOS LLORCA

EL SACRIFICIO, Guatemala (AP) - Huddled together aboard two vintage tanks, 40 soldiers plow through dense jungle on a four-hour journey into a little-known battlefield of the drug war. Their mission, here in Guatemala's wild north: to blow up dozens of clandestine airstrips used by planes laden with Colombian cocaine.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates 70 per cent of the cocaine that ends up in the United States passes through Central America.
Article:Stopping cocaine

[witchlinblue]

To me that makes sense, stop the source not punish the victims. They need to be doing more of this stuff.