The assassins came for Honduras' anti-drug czar moments after he'd dropped his daughter off at school. His car was still in front of the schoolhouse when the two men drove up on a motorcycle and fired 11 bullets into Julian Aristides Gonzalez's body. His devastated wife rushed to the scene and kissed the corpse of the 57-year old former general. He had been planning to retire within two months and move his family to Canada.
Gonzalez' murder last month is the latest sign that drug-related violence has intensified across Latin America, wreaking havoc from Mexico to Peru. And Honduras - a strategic transit point U.S.-bound cocaine - has become ensnared in the vicious turf wars between Mexican trafficking cartels and those among Colombian producers. The turmoil in Honduras also reflects the impact of the U.S. drug war on the region's political divisions. Hours before his death, Gonzalez had given a news conference in which he accused the leftist Venezuelan government of turning a blind eye on Colombian guerrillas moving cocaine into Central America.
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