Sentence examples for narcotics war from inspiring English sources

The cabinet officials' statements appeared timed to cast Mexico's anti-drug efforts in a positive light a month before President Clinton must report to Congress on how foreign governments are cooperating in the narcotics war.

The Mexican government asserted today that its soldiers and police seized far more drugs in 1999 than in previous years, partly as a result of increased spending on high-tech gadgetry, aircraft and naval vessels deployed in the narcotics war.

General Serrano's personal popularity, based on his folksy manner and image of integrity, had dissolved much of the popular discontent over lawlessness and bolstered American confidence in Colombia's ability to fight its end of the narcotics war, which is fed by drug use and addiction in the United States.

A8 Anti-Drug Success Reported Mexico asserted that soldiers and police seized far more drugs in 1999 than in previous years, partly as a result of increased spending on high-tech gadgetry, aircraft and naval vessels used in the narcotics war.

Scored, like Miami Vice, by Jan Hammer, the film keeps up a cracking pace, like its participants used to before things got so out of hand that the government's narcotics war got serious in the 1980s (by then crack and freebasing were around and four Miami mayors had been indicted for drug connections).

This lurid accounting promises a drug-related tale, and the current narcotics wars are not unconnected to the overall narrative.

Last school year, 258 public school students were shot in Chicago, 32 fatally, on their way to or from school, traveling through gang-infested territory and narcotics wars on the South and West Sides.

It's a grim, brutal avenue of employment available because of the narcotics wars that are still raging all over South America, even after the death of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar.

It has often seemed that way over the last 10 years, as Mr. Fujimori effectively confronted an array of plagues -- from hyperinflation to terrorism to an invasion of narcotics traffickers, from war with Ecuador to massive flooding caused by El Nino.

In fact, China has singled out synthetic narcotics in their war on drugs, much to North Korea's chagrin.

To the degree that it has had any success in reducing the involvement of organised crime in the narcotics trade, the "war on drugs" appears merely to have displaced the problem: some of the organised criminal groups facing increased costs have moved into counterfeiting of pharmaceuticals [ 25].