Changes In Drug Routes Challenge SOUTHCOM

The head of the U.S. Southern Command says his forces are trying to catch up with changes in drug-trafficking routes in Central and South America, reports the Army Times.

The command has seized 100 tons of cocaine this year, about half of what was captured in 2009 because of new routes, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said at a think tank in Washington, D.C.

The routes changed in part due to the success of Plan Colombia, the 10-year U.S. effort to combat the drug trade in that...