Security & Strategic Review - September 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)

In the wake of incidents in Honduras involving the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in operations that resulted in the deaths of suspected drug traffickers and uninvolved civilians, the country has been shaken by another episode of greater political import: the replacement of its air force chief, by some versions at the behest of the US. This affair, shrouded in equivocation and contradictions, is connected with Honduras’s unannounced adoption of a shootdown policy — a move which is being adopted or considered overtly by several other countries in the region.

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