Latin America & Caribbean
In photos: the planes, pilots and clandestine infrastructure of narco-aviation
The Cessna is the most popular model for drug flights. Traffickers defy the authorities by using landing strips and make-shift control towers in the middle of the jungle.
The single-engine Cessna is the most commonly used airplane for drug trafficking.
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Luis Andrés Mojica, one of the pilots who disappeared in Peru on a suspected drug flight.
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Vanessa Herrera, mother of two missing pilots. She received what she was told were the charred remains of one of her sons, Luis Andrés, in a box. But she has not lost all hope of finding him alive. Luis Andrés may have died while flying a drug mission in the Peruvian jungle that went wrong. Juan Pablo went missing while attempting to search for him.
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Néstor Clavijo shows a photo with his son disappeared in the Peruvian jungle.
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A clandestine landing strip in eastern Honduras which is a popular re-fueling point for small planes carrying drugs that leave Colombia and Venezuela bound for Mexico.
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A makeshift control tower discovered by the Honduran police near Brus Laguna in the remote region of the Mosquito coast of eastern of Honduras.
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Venezuelan licensed plane crashed in Honduras loaded with drugs. Planes stop to refuel in Honduras on their way from South America to mexico.
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The traffickers remove the seats of the airplane to pack it with drugs.
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A counter-narcotics operation in Honduras.
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A counter-narcotics unit in Honduras.
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Heavy machinery seized in the Honduras jungle used to make clandestine airstrips.
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An ex-captain of the Honduran army denounced that this helicopter was linked to the brother of the President of the Republic, Juan Orlando Hernández. He was later accused of corruption by the U.S. embassy.
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Fuel drums for drug flights seized in Honduras.
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Marijuana seized in Mexico. Drug planes cary the finished product north to the U.S. border.
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In Mexico's Golden Triangle, during marijuana harvest season, up to three flights can depart daily for the U.S. border.
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