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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Alarmed by a dramatic increase in narcotics- related violence in the Caribbean, the Obama administration is pledging to help island nations combat drug and weapons traffickers.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Barbados for a regional meeting of foreign ministers, unveiled the administration’s $124 million Caribbean Basin Security Initiative on Thursday, intended to help countries counter the illegal narcotics and arms trade and help prosecute offenders.
