Weak Central American states are hard-pressed to go up against the Mexican cartels, and now, Guatemala's president wants to build a NATO-style regional military force to go up against them. And for the US to pay for it.
At least one Michigan legislator wants to know how often SWAT teams are deployed. (image via wikimedia.org)
At an absolute minimum, at least 74 people were killed in prohibition-related violence in Mexico in the last week. Sad to say, there's nothing unusual about the death toll.
An undercover drug operation in suburban Chicago gone "out of control" led to a shoot-out and car chase in a strip mall parking lot and generated the 31st drug law enforcement killing of the year.
marijuana fields just before they are burned (image via wikimedia.org)