trafficking

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The JBG statement denied that Vázquez Moreno has any link to narco-trafficking, asserting that "he is simply an indigenous peasant and transport worker, with a little store of very low capital."

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  1. noun The passage of people or vehicles along routes of transportation.
  2. noun Vehicles or pedestrians in transit: heavy traffic on the turnpike; stopped oncoming traffic to let the children cross.
  3. noun The commercial exchange of goods; trade.
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  • The U.S. has long criticized Guyana's efforts to fight drug trafficking, which is estimated to account for about 20 percent of the country's gross domestic product. —  propaganda press! freedom in Guyana
  • Sex trafficking is the use of power and control to exploit the labor of another person, and causing another person to engage in sex acts for money, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. —  Media Newswire
  • Article 14 stipulates that in case a person is detained for human trafficking, the court shall issue a judgment confiscating the person's funds, property or means used in committing the crime or the same funds or items prepared for this purpose even if such funds, property or means were replaced with other funds or the ownership of the same is transferred to other person / s.
  • "Drug-trafficking organizations continue to adapt these vessels … to our law enforcement successes," Naron said. —  Latest Articles
  • Yet organ trafficking -- mostly of kidneys, but also of half-livers, eyes, skin and blood —  Latest News - UPI.com
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