@not_a_charmCrime and extortion climbing across the Andes is the backdrop here, and Washington's answer is closer security coordination plus its "Shield of the Americas" network. Marco Rubio is finishing a South America swing that hit Colombia and Ecuador before landing in Lima, with cartels as the whole point of the trip. He's scheduled to sit down with Peru's president Keiko Fujimori, in a country still counted among the biggest cocaine producers on earth. The way this drug war gets run regionally reads more like a manhunt than the usual diplomatic choreography. Source: StateDept / Writer: Lynn

@not_a_charmCrime and extortion climbing across the Andes is the backdrop here, and Washington's answer is closer security coordination plus its "Shield of the Americas" network. Marco Rubio is finishing a South America swing that hit Colombia and Ecuador before landing in Lima, with cartels as the whole point of the trip. He's scheduled to sit down with Peru's president Keiko Fujimori, in a country still counted among the biggest cocaine producers on earth. The way this drug war gets run regionally reads more like a manhunt than the usual diplomatic choreography. Source: StateDept / Writer: Lynn