Corozal
T
he morning briefing was painfully predictable with two Canadian officers on detached duty from Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry doing a tag-team act that lasted nearly two hours. There were the inevitable command wire diagrams as confusing to assimilate as they must have been to create. And there were any number of bullet-point slides that indicated the broad scope of Operation Martillo. It was a cooperative effort by countries most concerned to interdict drugs as close to the primary sources in Central America as possible. Once drugs reached the U.S. border—primarily through Mexico—they became an elusive commodity handled by a large and complex criminal distribution network. The new approach was to back up along the trail leading to North America and focus on cuttin
