U.S. Sends 600 Troops to Panama, Colombia and Honduras in Expanded Latin America Anti-Cartel Campaign
The United States has begun deploying roughly 600 soldiers across Latin America as Washington widens its military campaign against drug-trafficking networks, U.S. officials said this week. The battalion is drawn from the Army’s 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum in New York. Its first elements have started arriving in Panama, where the troops are…