UNITED NATIONS -- Central American nations need urgent international help to confront the increasingly dangerous presence of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, the head of a U.N.-backed commission investigating organized crime in Guatemala said yesterday.
"Latin America has no time," U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Carlos Castresana said. "This is a situation of emergency."
Mexican drug cartels are increasingly using Central American nations to move drugs, and are dealing directly with Colombian cartels to obtain cocaine, which is also produced in Peru and Bolivia. Guatemala faces the worst problem, Castresana said, because it is lightly populated and has a 590-mile border with Mexico.
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