<blockquote>Overseas, however, the U.S. approach to drugs still looks a lot like war. The D.E.A., assisted by the U.S. military, acts as an international police force, coördinating with foreign militaries through a network of offshore bases. Of the twenty-five billion dollars that the federal government spent fighting drugs last year, forty per cent went to treatment and prevention programs. The rest went to “supply reduction.” In Mexico, the $1.9 billion Mérida Initiative has relied on an enforcement-driven strategy somewhat similar to Plan Colombia’s. In 2006, President Felipe Calderón decided to deploy the Mexican military to fight drug cartels; since then, more than seventy thousand people have been killed in drug-related violence.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/06/140106fa_fact_schwartz?currentPage=all">Mattathias Schwartz: In Honduras, a Drug-War Mission Gone Wrong : The New Yorker</a>.