In Teevan's version, he is not just an arms dealer but also a sex-trade trafficker vainly accompanied everywhere by a TV interviewer.
They also receive a cut of the trade from traffickers they protect.
And, after a successful "promotion" to recruiter, some ex-victims take positions in the trade, as traffickers and madams.
Like the legitimate businessmen energized by the loosening of North American trade, the traffickers have sought new economies of scale, taken advantage of the freer movement of Mexican trucking into the United States and even shifted some production closer to consumers.
Malaysia is considered a key transit point in the pangolin trade as traffickers in Africa and Southeast Asia kill the small armored animal to feed a market in China and Vietnam, where it is used as an ingredient in Chinese medicine.
Colombia is a relative upstart in the international heroin trade, with cocaine traffickers there deciding to get into the business only around 1990.
Meanwhile, the FARC continues to draw financing from the cocaine trade, using local traffickers in Venezuela to smuggle Colombian cocaine to points northward from Venezuelan airstrips, according to the State Department's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report.
He said: "Increasingly the assertion is made that international drug control policies have failed and the best solution would be to legalise drugs so that they would be controlled and distributed safely through Government authorised outlets, thus denying the trade to criminal traffickers".
The government argues that this helps protect women in the trade from human traffickers, but others say that it makes sex work more dangerous for women who are consensually working in the industry.
But the narcotics trade flourished as drug traffickers continued to export opium and heroin.
Supporters of the bill, including gender equality campaigners, hope that punishing clients and making prostitutes the "victims" of the sex trade will discourage the traffickers and pimps.
