Guatemala City, March 06: Demand for illegal narcotics in the United States is fueling drug violence in Central America, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said, acknowledging a measure of US responsibility for what she called a “terrible criminal scourge.”
“The United States under the Obama administration recognises and accepts its share of responsibility for the problems posed by drug trafficking in this region,” she told reporters yesterday ahead of the talks in the Guatemalan capital.
“The demand in the large market in the United States drives the drug trade,” she said. “We know that we are part of the problem and that is an admission that we have been willing make this past year.”
Clinton made the same admission last year on a trip to Mexico, which was then beginning major military operations against drug cartels.
–PTI