Honduras is the new front line of the DEA’s War on Drugs—and a
growing number of civilian lives are being claimed by the chaos.
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"I threw myself into the river so they wouldn't shoot me again," she
said. She stayed there, grabbing onto a branch and keeping only her nose
above the water, to avoid the hail of bullets.
Later, in a press conference, Lezama spoke on her daughter's cell
phone from a hospital bed in La Ceiba. In a surprisingly calm voice for
someone just shot, Lezama said she never imagined the helicopters would
fire on her little boat, with its cargo of fishermen, women and
children.
Lezama is one of the lucky ones in that boat the morning of May 11. Juana Jackson and Candelaria Pratt -- both bearing unborn children --
were shot to death, along with 14-year-old Hasked Brooks and Emerson
Martinez. Three other Mosquito villagers are in serious condition.
Lessons of Iraq Help U.S. Fight a Drug War in Honduras
FORWARD OPERATING BASE MOCORON, Honduras — The United States military
has brought lessons from the past decade of conflict to the drug war
being fought in the wilderness of Miskito Indian country, constructing
this remote base camp with little public notice but with the support of
the Honduran government.
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