Sentence examples for big traffickers from inspiring English sources

Madeleine Albright indeed praised Colombia's police and anti-narcotics agencies, which last year eradicated some 50,000 hectares (125,000 acres) of coca and poppy plantations, seized huge quantities of drugs and arrested several big traffickers.

Cocaine labs have cropped up, and Argentina is increasingly becoming a land of big traffickers, an important transit point between producers in Bolivia and Peru and consumers in Europe.

Ofri Drori, a private investigator who runs the Eagle Network, which has put 1,300 wildlife traffickers behind bars in nine countries, said the big traffickers were not being targeted, and the reason is corruption.

Rather, it is the details that add up to a clearer picture of the corrupting influence of big traffickers, the tricky game of figuring out which foreign officials are actually controlled by drug lords, and the story of how an entrepreneurial agency operating in the shadows of the F.B.I. has become something more than a drug agency.

But the federal government has never had the resources to target users, only big traffickers.One clue to the future comes from the 18 states plus Washington, DC, where medical marijuana is legal.

One day he met a big trafficker who promised him good money if he would send girls from the village to his placement agency.

"And when we plan an operation, we have to have approval of the local police chief or his deputy or the zone police chief, and if one of those people is corrupt or linked to a big trafficker, it leaks".

Initially using a network of friends, he gradually became one of the biggest traffickers of cannabis in Europe.

In the early 1990's, as the Arellanos began to solidify their control of the Tijuana underworld, state officials had little understanding that Mexico's biggest traffickers were growing significantly richer and more defiant.

By contrast, officials say, successful Drug Enforcement Administration programs to train and support special Colombian police teams that work against the country's biggest traffickers cost only a few million dollars a year.

For decades, Lo was considered one of the world's biggest traffickers of heroin.