One expensive police clampdown did not produce a single case of traffickers in the whole country.
It is noteworthy that the ordinance the supervisors adopted on Tuesday does not single out child sex traffickers, but takes in anyone convicted of any of the myriad crimes that fit under the expanding umbrella of human trafficking.
In Honduras, the coast northeast of San Pedro Sula offers a remote, largely uninhabited rainforest that is perfect for the single-engine planes traffickers use, then hide or burn to destroy the evidence.
"He is the single largest known illegal wildlife trafficker in Asia," said Steven Galster, the executive director of Freeland, a counter-trafficking organization that has been trailing Mr. Vixay for eight years.
The laws are there to convict foreigners but with traffickers bringing in quantities of cocaine that dwarf the country's GDP in a single deal, once caught, the traffickers quickly disappear.
Twenty-one people died Thursday morning in a single fierce shootout between rival drug traffickers outside Nogales, which borders Arizona.
If a single route or market is closed, traffickers easily shift to others.
The single deadliest attack on civilians by drug traffickers in Mexico took place Sept. 15 at an Independence Day celebration in the central plaza of Morelia, hometown of President Felipe Calderon and capital of Michoacan.
knows that multiple purchases are an indicator of trafficking, and that traffickers can evade the law by making a single purchase from five, 10 or 20 different gun stores.
Yet for the first two and a half years of his administration, not a single elected official was arrested for complicity with the traffickers.
