Wars on corruption and drug-trafficking have been launched with great show but, so far, few results.
But in its responses to drug-trafficking and organised crime that ideal has been severely weakened.
In Mexico, police have been involved in crimes ranging from mugging to drug-trafficking and kidnapping.
It is also a well-known fact that the FARC is linked to drug-trafficking cartels.
But Mr Derbez said Mexico had proved it was successfully fighting violence and drug-trafficking in the region.
But the minister's former deputy who also met Reyes was arrested this year on suspicion of drug-trafficking.
The PAN has made its main election issue the president's popular if not yet successful battle with drug-trafficking gangs.
AUC's military leadership, at least nominally, and appeared to push the group towards a break with drug-trafficking.
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Two were already on the US Treasury Department's blacklist for allegedly colluding with Colombian guerrillas in drug-trafficking.
Last year the UN Security Council warned that renewed political instability was allowing drug-trafficking to flourish in Guinea-Bissau.
By law, the president must decide which of some 30 countries with drug-trafficking problems are eligible for certification.
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There is little support for including drug-trafficking and terrorism, which most feel should be left to national courts.
An ex-prisoner, who served time for drug-trafficking, he had recently converted to Islam.
Duran said police are interrogating Heredia to determine whether she was working as a mule for a drug-trafficking organization.
An ex-prisoner who served time for drug-trafficking, Louis-Sidney had recently converted to Islam.
Honduras has the world's highest murder rate, according to the UN, with much of the killing linked to drug-trafficking.
The PT's president threatened to sue, and Mr Serra dropped the drug-trafficking charge.
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Two officers who had been members were arrested last year on drug-trafficking charges.
FARC, corrupted by drug-trafficking and kidnapping, is targetting marginal, deprived and crime-ridden neighbourhoods.
In 1999, the Netherlands convicted Mr Bouterse in absentia of drug-trafficking in 1999.
To tackle drug-trafficking, states should use international agreements against organised crime and corruption.
Though the rebels deny it, drug-trafficking or, at best, protection money from traffickers, is a sizeable source of their income.
Now, analysts say the Gulf cartel is allied with the Sinaloa cartel, one of the nation's most powerful drug-trafficking groups.
In many areas of the country they have reached accommodations with the FARC, which is also heavily involved in drug-trafficking.
New scandals of corruption, drug-trafficking or dodgy banking practice may spring up to remind voters of the ruling party's record.
He has been under investigation by a congressional committee, on the suspicion that he used his position to aid drug-trafficking.
Russia has been grappling for years with a huge heroin abuse problem, exacerbated by its proximity to drug-trafficking routes from Afghanistan.
To detect individuals convicted of drug-trafficking or possession who had their right to Federal student financial assistance denied by the court.
In 1992, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years in jail in the United States on drug-trafficking charges.
Mexican drug-trafficking cartels are known to smuggle drugs and huge sums of money to and from Colombia through Central American countries.
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