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In the coverage of the arrests, the media compared the event to the protests of “los tapados” [“the blockers”] (violent groups that blocked the transit of avenues a couple of months ago) and to the elaborated system of drug-trade and organized crime in the city.

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San Pedro Sula, of Honduras, ranked No. 1 for homicide rate, which Luis Suazo, deputy chief of mission at the Honduras Embassy in Washington, D.C., says reflects its location along drug-trade routes rather than a sign of violence in the culture.

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Apelgear: That would work just as well as the laws against murder actually stopped all murder, Prohibition stopped sales of alcohol – or the War on Drugs stopped the drug-trade.

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Though anybody trying to provide local security is going to have to deal with drug-trade related violence.

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But he acknowledges that the power of organized crime, armed with weapons and drug-trade financing from across the border, continues to be a very serious challenge.

A Stimulus Plan for Mexican Gangsters 2009

Another unpopular goal on the PM's agenda is confronting drug-trade corruption in the judiciary and politics.

Haiti Starts Over Again 2009

In other words, Ecuador wanted to help the FARC in two of its most important objectives: establishing a safe haven over the border and ending fumigation of coca crops, a key source of the FARC's drug-trade income.

The FARC's Ecuadorean Friends 2009

Marijuana accounts for the bulk of Mexican drug-trade revenues, bringing in more than twice as much money as cocaine, according to a study released last year by the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

The Antidrug Campaign Tries a New Message 2009

Mike Ackerman, president of the Ackerman Group, an investigative security firm, says most of the drug-trade crime within Mexico is "narco on narco" violence or violence against police.

Is It Safe to Go to Mexico? 2009

-- Blackwater was asked by the Pentagon to bid for a share of a whopping $15 billion contract to "fight terrorists with drug-trade ties" in a US program that targets countries like Colombia, Bolivia, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.

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