The enormous challenge we face is that of crime and drug trafficking.

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Police collusion, and the consequent fear of reporting kidnaps, mean that this crime epidemic has failed to receive the kind of relentless media coverage given to drug trafficking.

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The play accuses Mr Dell'Utri, a senator and former head of Mr Berlusconi's advertising company, of drug trafficking and involvement with organised crime.

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Also, Belize has a problem with violent crime, much of it drug-related, and the trafficking of narcotics to the US. In 2011 Belize was added to a US blacklist of countries considered to be major producers or transit routes for illegal drugs.

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In November, a Nicaraguan judge found Puracal guilty of money laundering, drug trafficking and organized crime and sentenced the American to 22 years.

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The aim of this initiative is to combat drug trafficking, transnational crime and money laundering.

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Mr Zedillo has had to face both a surge in petty crime, which is blamed on the economic crisis, and an increase in organised crime: especially in drug-trafficking, after the relative weakening of the Colombian drug gangs allowed more room for Mexican ones.

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While cartels are rarely directly linked to crime in the city, the DEA agent said drug trafficking is an underlying cause of territorial battles between street gangs that are blamed for rising homicide rates.

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The Presidents exchanged their opinions on the diverse topics of the international agenda, with a special focus on new threats such as terrorism, transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, and nuclear proliferation.

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