Operation Anvil was a ninety-day pilot program conducted by the members of United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)'s Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Team (FAST) and officers from the Honduran National Police's Tactical Response Team (TRT) against drug trafficking from South America to Honduras."
On 11 May DEA agents and Honduran police "killed and injured innocent civilians during the operation and ... abused residents in a nearby village."
In addition, State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) provided operational support from the command center in Honduras.
"[1]: i In Ahuas, Honduras a passenger boat with more than twelve people aboard came in contact with the small Operation Anvil three-man team transporting "large amounts of cocaine" that they had seized earlier in the evening.
[1]: i Following rounds of gunshot, embassy officials began to receive "reports from Ahuas that innocent civilians had been killed and injured and that there had been abusive police activity in a nearby village".