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4 common misconceptions about how drugs get to the US through Mexico and Central America

Jun 21, 2017, 03:37 IST

Police officers carry packages containing cocaine seized in Puerto Quetzal, at the air force base in Guatemala City, June 13, 2014. The cocaine, which weighs about 1,224 kg, was found in a container among a banana shipment that left Ecuador and was headed to the US, according to local media.REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez

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The issue of illegal narcotics flowing from Latin America into the US through Central America and Mexico has come to the fore in recent months, as policymakers in Washington turn their attention to the US border and the movement across it.

Along with that renewed focus, a number of misconceptions and inaccuracies about what drugs move through Mexico and Central America, who is moving them, and what is being done to stop them have gained traction as well.

This post was originally published by Adam Isacson, senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America.

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