Mexican Drug Cartels Reach Into Tiny Belize -- Washington Post
BELIZE CITY, Belize — The sleepy port towns, mangrove swamps and jungle airstrips of poorly defended, tiny Belize are becoming prime gateways for drug trafficking as Mexico’s billionaire mafias carve out new smuggling routes through Central America.
Using light aircraft and ultra-fast boats, traffickers are moving more and more South American cocaine through Belize into Mexico, U.S. narcotics agents and Belizean officials say.
By landing their lucrative cargo in Belize, the traffickers avoid detection by beefed-up Mexican army and navy patrols, marking the latest advance by the Mexican cartels into Central America’s impoverished, weak states, through which as much as 90 percent of the cocaine that reaches the United States now passes, according to U.S. assessments.
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My Comment: I visited Belize years ago .... it is not only one of the most beautiful tourist spots in Central America .... but it is also an English country. The fact that the drug gangs are now using this country as a jumping point into Mexico is not really a surprise ... it's location and geography is ideal for smuggling drugs and other contraband into Mexico.