the first stop

Washington, DC - 79 percent of cocaine smuggling flights leaving South America make their first stop in [mainland] Honduras, and about 80 percent of the cocaine arriving in Mexico from South America destined for U.S. transits through Central America, with Guatemala and [mainland] Honduras as major points entry, said the U.S. government's annual report on world drug trafficking released today.

Translated from Proceso Digital

This information confirms why Hugo Chavez was so hell-bent on getting control of Honduras in June, 2009.