Street gangs in the northern triangle also fight deadly battles often unrelated to the drug trade.
One problem is what happens to the 600, 000 or so people employed by the drug trade.
Of these, authorities consider 40 to be related to the drug trade or criminal rivalries.
Likewise, the drug trade brings violence and corruption, and rising drug-taking, south of the border.
Mr Banzer may be right in saying that some Yungas coca is supplying the drug trade.
For at least a decade, Guinea-Bissau has played a key role in the drug trade.
Just as the world economy is integrated, so, unfortunately, the drug trade is integrated.
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The drug trade itself undermines democracy, but so do the heavy-handed American efforts to contain it.
Watch out here for laundered money from the drug trade and other thriving illegal businesses.
Brazil's media worry that the drug trade and refugees may be pushed across the frontier.
It is similar to the drug trade, you guess from the amount you're able to seize.
But his troubles at home are significant, with corruption and the drug trade all too powerful.
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That applies to the drug trade, gun smuggling, border security, the environment and illegal immigration.
Both he and his brother deny longstanding allegations that Ahmed Wali is involved in the drug trade.
Support of Hamas, Hezbollah, the PKK and the drug trade is the litmus test of Syrian intentions.
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The Guatemalan government approximates that two-fifths of the homicides in its country can be attributed to the drug trade.
Both men were already on the United States Treasury Department's blacklist of alleged collaborators with the drug trade.
FARC's revenues from taxing the drug trade is likely to be offset by an increase in kidnapping and extortion.
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He was also a controversial figure rumored to have ties to the drug trade and the private security industry.
The drug trade hinders progress towards economic stability and democracy, the report adds.
The video is being shopped around by a group of men involved in the drug trade, the Star reported Thursday.
Cash always provides criminal anonymity as in the drug trade, terrorism, burglaries, organised crime, illegal gun running, and cash thefts.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, who heads the provincial council in Kandahar, has long been suspected of siphoning profits from the drug trade.
And with profits from the drug trade dropping, cartels have turned to other activities, such as kidnapping, extortion and human trafficking.
When gangs are fighting for control of the drug trade, the victims tend to be involved somewhere in the supply chain.
By refusing to help the opium farmers, the world may loose a historic chance to tackle the drug trade, he says.
The global media has picked up a number of the stories and now Mexico is commonly identified with the drug trade.
Late in the story, a boy is born who is three generations removed from his last ancestor unclaimed by the drug trade.
Although large-scale trafficking had been around for decades, the violence associated with the drug trade had begun to spiral out of control.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle is the sheer lucrativeness of the drug trade.
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