Street gangs in the northern triangle also fight deadly battles often unrelated to the drug trade.
Of these, authorities consider 40 to be related to the drug trade or criminal rivalries.
For at least a decade, Guinea-Bissau has played a key role in the drug trade.
Brazil's media worry that the drug trade and refugees may be pushed across the frontier.
That applies to the drug trade, gun smuggling, border security, the environment and illegal immigration.
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.
He was also a controversial figure rumored to have ties to the drug trade and the private security industry.
Ahmed Wali Karzai, who heads the provincial council in Kandahar, has long been suspected of siphoning profits from the drug trade.
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.
Ralph Lauren's uncanny faux-aristocratic knockoffs fueled knockoffs of the knockoffs, and now an international knockoff industry rivals the profits of the drug trade.
Other critics said the money would be better spent on drug treatment efforts at home, to cut into the demand that fuels the drug trade.
The clearest cases of such transnational state-spoilers concern the drug trade.
Within Afghanistan, we must help grow the economy, while developing alternatives to the drug trade by tapping the resilience and the ingenuity of the Afghan people.
One of President Felipe Calderon's priorities is to make sure the Obama administration picks up on a new U.S. aid program to help Mexico combat the drug trade.
Officials initially accused Zapeta of being a courier for the drug trade, but they dropped the allegation once he produced pay stubs from restaurants where he had worked.
We have had very close cooperation between our two governments on issues of drug interdiction and dealing with the constant problem of the drug trade in Central America.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli | The White House
It also involves greater intelligence sharing aimed at cracking down on the flow of money and weapons into Mexico that helps fuel the drug trade, senior administration officials said.
Since then American spokespersons have criticised Venezuelan officials for their involvement in the drug trade, skewering the country in annual drug reports and freezing the assets of at least seven current or former Venezuelan officials.
The violence comes as Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto pushes a new strategy aimed at focusing more on dealing with social and economic issues that fuel the drug trade and less on combating cartels head-on.
The Globe and Mail, citing anonymous sources who were involved in the drug trade, alleged that Doug Ford sold hashish for several years in the 1980s in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, where the family grew up.
Uribe understands that having the Despeje, a 42, 000 square kilometer territory in central Colombia was a failed policy because it gave the FARC the ability to arm its forces and build and consolidate significant portions of the drug trade.
We are grateful for the support that we already receive but we need even greater international co-operation to disrupt the drug trade, reduce consumption, seize assets that are held outside Colombia and restrict the supply of arms to these groups.
So what we've been trying to see is can we get more resources into treatment, more resources into a public health approach, even as we continue to target the cartels, the drug kingpins, those who are really responsible for perpetrating the drug trade in communities across the country.
In an address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, President Lobo again blamed the international drug trade for the violence afflicting his country.
"These groups foster violence and instability...in an attempt to advance their political agendas, and largely finance their operations through the illicit drug trade, " Rodney Benson, chief of intelligence for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said in congressional testimony last year.
It's no wonder that the pitched fight for control of the lucrative drug trade has become more intense as Mexican law enforcement has tried to put the squeeze on drug lords.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the drug industry trade group, issued a statement saying it approved of most of the major changes.
And in a major rhetorical shift in the nearly four-decade-old Latin American drug war, American diplomats now acknowledge that U.S. demand drives the illegal drug trade.
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