18:38 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged more foreign aid to fight drug cartels in Central America.<\/p>\n
Mrs Clinton told a regional security conference in Guatemala that the US would increase its aid by more than 10% to nearly $300m.<\/p>\n
Analysts say the figure is still small given the difficulty of the task, with more than two-thirds of all cocaine being shipped from South America to the US now passing through Central America.<\/p>\n
In total, donors pledged close to $1bn.<\/p>\n
Mrs Clinton said funding for the fight against transnational organised crime in the region would be increased from $260m in 2010 to almost $300m this year.<\/p>\n
But Mrs Clinton stressed she expected Central American nations to pull their weight.<\/p>\n
“We will be your ready partners but it must begin with you and led by you,” she said addressing leaders from across the region at the Central American Security Conference.<\/p>\n
Fight across borders<\/strong><\/p>\nMrs Clinton said governments had to work together to beat the drug cartels, which are behind much of the violence blighting the region.<\/p>\n
“The cartels and criminals are not contained by borders and so therefore our response must not be either,” she said.<\/p>\n
But Mrs Clinton did not only call on governments to increase their efforts to fight crime. She said businesses also had a role to play.<\/p>\n
“Businesses and the rich in every country must pay their fair share of taxes and become full partners in a whole of society effort. True security cannot be funded on the backs of the poor,” she stressed.<\/p>\n
Efforts by presidents in Central America to raise taxes have faced opposition in the past.<\/p>\n
Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes’ plan to impose a new tax to raise money for security programmes has been opposed by many in El Salvador.<\/p>\n
Central America has long been used to smuggle drugs from producer countries such as Colombia and Peru to the main drug markets in the United States.<\/p>\n
But with Mexican President Felipe Calderon declaring war on drug gangs in his country, Mexican cartels have increasingly been moving into Central America and running smuggling operations there.<\/p>\n
In March, police in Honduras for the first time uncovered a cocaine laboratory in the country.<\/p>\n
Security officials said it was a first-rate facility, probably run by Mexican gangs, which they said indicated that some of the cocaine production was being moved there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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