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Weekly Report - 3 February 2011 (WR-11-05)
REGION: Colom floats regional security force
A regional response to a regional problem. This was the logic behind
a proposal put forward last week by Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom regarding
the possibility of establishing a joint “special combined forces" together with
other members of the so-called “northern triangle" (El Salvador and Honduras) to
fight the Mexican drug gang, Los Zetas. The initiative, which Colom suggested
would be supported by the US, Mexico and Colombia, is due to be discussed at a
regional summit to be held in Guatemala City later in the year. It serves as the
latest indication of the way in which the security threat posed by the spread of
international drug gangs in the isthmus is serving as a driving force for
regional unification.
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