Click here to access article by Sandra Cuffe and Karen Spring from AlterNet.
The authors illuminate the hidden story (from Americans) of the ongoing effort to secure access to raw materials in Central America under the guise of the "War on Drugs". This integration of the military forces of a targeted country with the Empire is the favorite method of US political operatives. In Honduras the integration appears to be complete--no doubt as a result of the major campaign under the Reagan administration to arm and train Honduran mercenaries to attack and destabilize the Sandinista government in nearby Nicaragua in the 1980s.