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		<title>Drug War Do-Over: Can the U.S. Push Trafficking Out of Central America?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headlines in Nicaragua these days have a familiar echo. In what feels like a 30-year high school reunion, the reanimated socialist Sandinista Front, led by president Daniel Ortega, is rekindling its old revolutionary romance with Russia, which has promised its former tovarishch millions of dollars in weapons, uniforms, helicopters, armored vehicles and training. But this time, the Russian arms will be targeted at drug traffickers, not political insurgents. And the U.S., which spent billions of dollars to stop the expansion of Soviet influence in Central America in the 1980s, is welcoming its former cold war nemesis backinto the neighborhood. “The truth is that we want collaboration, and if the collaboration comes from Russia in our hemisphere or if it’s the United States in Russia’s hemisphere, then I think that is positive,” Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield, the Obama Administration’s point man on Central America’s drug war, said in response to Russian drug czar Victor Ivanov’s recent visit to Nicaragua. (MORE: Caribbean Crisis: Can Nicaragua Navigate Waters It Won from Colombia?) While Russian involvement in Central America is still cause for concern in some Washington circles, the U.S. has much bigger problems in the region. In Guatemala and Honduras, two of the most violent countries on earth, the U.S.-led drug war has become an increasingly difficult endeavor. Success, according to Brownfield, may mean pushing the drug trade elsewhere and beginning the battle anew. In Honduras, which gets $36 million of the $85 million in annual U.S. aid for anti-drug efforts in Central America, rampant corruption has led the U.S. to bypass the normal chain of police command to work with specialized units of agents “selected for their honesty and lack of corruption,” according to Brownfield. The U.S. refuses to work with Honduran Police Chief Juan Carlos Bonilla, whom U.S. officials are investigating for extrajudicial killings and other accusations ofrights abuses, and 20 top police commissioners under his command. Brownfield, who recently visited Honduras, says the U.S. will maintain a policy of “two degrees of separation” from the country’s tarnished police commanders until the whole force is “purified” of corruption<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79627&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Honduras, Drums Join the Battle Against AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Erik Gould / Corozal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent afternoon in the village of Corozal on Honduras’ northern coast, men readied boats for fishing excursions, women sold coconut bread and boys played soccer on a beach lined with thatched huts. Suddenly, they heard the sound of drums emanating from a sandy lot near the beach, and some stopped what they were doing. Two teenage boys were slapping their palms on the tops of hollowed-out tree trunks, one a lower-pitched segunda drum and the other a higher-pitched primera. The two layers of pounding percussion created a magnetizing rhythm, and, as if captivating the community, a crowd arrived within minutes. For centuries, the drumming has been the signature sound of celebration for the Garifuna, an afro-Caribbean people on the Atlantic coast of Central America. Now this music has found an additional purpose—to prevent the spread of HIV. As people came to hear the drumming, the musicians turned into actors in a street theatre performance, and more performers soon joined. The plot centered around a court case: the Garifuna were putting HIV itself on trial. Eduardo Marcial Garcia, who played the prosecutor, gave his argument. “We’re hear to bring suit against HIV, the main cause of death in our communities,” Garcia said. “It’s orphaning children and tearing apart families. We want swift justice against HIV.” (MORE: U.S. Insists Its Anti-Drug Agents Did Not Fire on Innocent Hondurans) Garcia wasn’t just acting. He was educating the audience about an epidemic. According to the Honduran government and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4.5% of the Garifuna population in the country is HIV positive, a proportion more than five times as high as in the nation as a whole. To put that in perspective, no country in the Western Hemisphere has a rate nearly that high, and it’s twice as high as Haiti’s. The rate is greater than some African countries, including Nigeria, Congo and Cote d’Ivoire. While factors fueling the problem include widespread poverty and a tendency for men to migrate to areas rife with the virus, some of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=77358&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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