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The initiatives come amid a surge in successful interdictions in Honduras since May — but also as American officials have been forced to defend their new tactics after a commando-style team of D.E.A. agents
participated in at least three lethal interdiction operations alongside
a squad of Honduran police officers. In one of those operations, in
May, the Honduran police killed four people near the village of Ahuas,
and in two others in the past month American agents have shot and killed smuggling suspects.
To date, officials say, the D.E.A. commando team has not been deployed
to work with the newly created elite police squads in Africa, where the
effort to counter the drug traffickers is said to be about three years
behind the one in Central America.
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