The arrests mark the first time that al-Qaeda associates have been charged with narco-terrorism offenses.
Moreover, a recent anti-corruption purge does not appear to have hurt the operations of major narco-traffickers.
Indeed, the narco-traffickers themselves undoubtedly view their situation in Myanmar today rather differently from the junta.
And the junta is increasingly dependent on narco-dollars to keep a floundering economy above water.
It still isn't clear why Kombo Kolombia - who didn't perform narco-corridos - were killed.
Trained as paratroopers and intelligence operatives, they introduced a paramilitary element to narco-trafficking, outgunning police units.
For a different look at narco-culture, more traditional films are also starting to shed light on the drug game.
Attempts to intercept the guns that flow south to the narco-gangs antagonise America's muscular gun-rights lobby.
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Irish Republican Army operatives are training the FARC's narco-terrorist guerillas in Colombia with Cuban and Venezuelan assistance.
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Colombia has fought a narco-guerilla insurgency in the form of the FARC for the past thirty years.
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These cartels have ravaged the country for many years threatening to turn it into a narco-terrorist state.
Colombian officials complained that Brazil showed little solidarity with their democracy's fight against the narco-guerrillas of the FARC.
Our military has already trained and exercised together, and we're already close partners in preventing terrorism and combatting narco-traffic.
The most common fallout from the kingpin strategy has been the fragmentation of narco-trafficking into smaller, warring, ultraviolent factions.
So why are there warnings for some narco-trafficking countries and not others?
Whether Myanmar can be said to constitute a "narco-state" remains for the most part a matter of semantics and opinion.
Narco-corruption reaches to cabinet level and most provincial governors and police chiefs are known to be directly or indirectly involved.
However, the repatriation and laundering of narco-profits, as well as the impunity enjoyed by the traffickers has reached an institutionalized level.
The city of 18m is beset by land-grabbers and narco-warlords and by sectarian, ethnic and political feuding, or all three combined.
And despite the 21% reduction this year, there is no doubt that the danger that Afghanistan will become a narco-state remains real.
Does she mean that the leaders of the Mexican government are narco-terrorists?
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Our correspondent says the number of confrontations between the armed forces and the rebel groups, which the authorities call "narco-terrorists", is increasing.
On the one hand, Venezuela, under the leadership of Hugo Chavez, continues to support the Colombian narco-guerilla group known as the FARC.
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They met with Colombian national police who had just returned from Afghanistan, where they advised NATO forces on techniques for dealing with narco-terrorists.
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Our anti-materialist forebears were downing flagons of mead long before narco-cartels were lopping off the heads of police officers in Juarez and Tijuana.
Columbus' sister city across the border, Puerto Palomas, became known for narco-violence in 2009 when the mayor, Estanislao Garcia, was kidnapped and executed.
The notion that Yangon's corruption-riddled regime is able -- or willing -- to force a well-entrenched narco-mafia to become respectable businessmen is probably naive.
In a recent television interview with Univision, Makled described Chavez's Venezuela as a "narco-state" in which the government was "100 percent" involved in narco-trafficking.
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There are increasing indications that Hezbollah is also now embedding itself in Mexico, doing business and making common cause with narco-trafficking drug cartels there.
"The stronger the economies and the institutions for individuals seeking legitimate careers, the less powerful those narco-trafficking organisations are going to be, " Mr Obama said.
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