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	<title>Trends Updates &#187; drug trafficking</title>
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		<title>South African Minister Cwele’s Wife Faces Serious Drug Trafficking Charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariza</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cwele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug dealers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug trafficking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa is again in news because of controversy surrounding arrest of Sheryl Cwele, wife of Siyabonga Cwele who is South Africa’s intelligence and security minister. Sheryl Cwele is also director of health and community services at the Hibiscus Coast Municipality. She is said to be involved along with Tessa Beetge who was recently arrested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Cartel Wars in Mexico: Worse in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arellano Felix Organization/Tijuana cartel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beltran-Leyva Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counternarcotics campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug cartels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug syndicates]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[La Familia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Zetas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merida Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican drug cartel wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican President Felipe Calderón]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[narcopolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narcoterrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sinaloa Cartel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization/Juarez cartel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=30987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mexico has been besieged by gigantic drug cartels that have been causing widespread violence in the country. Drug violence in Mexico has been particularly alarming in 2009. It is said that there are two kinds of cartel wars in Mexico: the government of Mexico vs. drug cartels and the various cartels fighting one another. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The war on drugs: does it really work?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-war-on-drugs-does-it-really-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[border seizures of drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cali cartel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cocaine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demand for drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug crop eradication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flawed US anti-drug policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heroin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal drug demand reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal drug market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal drug supply control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illegal drug trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[increase domestic price of drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market economics of drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medellin cartel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plan Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reduce drug supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supply of drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US as Mexico’s biggest drug market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on drugs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=25667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The long–extending ‘war on drugs’ began in May 1971 when former US President Richard Nixon actually proclaimed a so-called “war on drugs.” Ever since, the US and the Western Hemisphere have not won such a war, with every proclaimed victory ending up a fiasco. In the 1970s and early &#8217;80s, Mexico and Jamaica pummeled marijuana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legalizing Narcotics: a way to end the War on Drugs?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/legalizing-narcotics-a-way-to-end-the-war-on-drugs/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/legalizing-narcotics-a-way-to-end-the-war-on-drugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-prohibition sentiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug legalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug profits of organized crime syndicates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug profits of terrorist groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug prohibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legalizing narcotics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[potential drug revenue taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US War on Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of legalizing narcotics used to be supported by only a smattering of minority groups that see interest in such a move. However, the drug trade and markets have since bloated exponentially since the early 1990s that the question of prohibition of a long list of drugs is now affecting the decision of policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The failing war on drugs in Mexico</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-failing-war-on-drugs-in-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/the-failing-war-on-drugs-in-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cocaine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failed drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heroin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LSD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[methamphetamines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican drug cartels]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mexican drug syndicates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican President Felipe Calderón]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico decriminalizes possession of small quantities of drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico's drug culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico's war on drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narcotrafficking in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power of drug cartels and organized crime in Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US drug demand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US drug market for Mexico's drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US-Mexico border]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=24042</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mexico’s biggest problem is the optimized power of drug cartels and organized crime. No government policy to crack down these groups seemed to have worked to solve the problem. Mexico recently announced it would decriminalize possession of small quantities of drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, LSD, methamphetamines, heroin, and opium if these are for personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zelaya, Chavez, and the FARC: not-so-invisible connection</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/zelaya-chavez-and-the-farc-not-so-invisible-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/zelaya-chavez-and-the-farc-not-so-invisible-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez supporting the FARC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cocaine trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombian cocaine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombian military raid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connections to organized crime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[drug trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[FARC-supported political faction in Honduras]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[raid on a FARC camp in Ecuador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rebel group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reinstatement to power of Zelaya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela as transit route for Colombian cocaine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=21610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Evidence has surfaced showing the connection between the supporters of deposed President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya and the largest South American supplier of illegal drugs to North America: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This is the missing link that directly explains why Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been openly working on Zelaya being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tajikistan: new hotbed of Islamists</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/tajikistan-new-hotbed-of-islamists/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/tajikistan-new-hotbed-of-islamists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug smuggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new hotbed of radical Islamists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poppy 2009 operation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rasht valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tajikistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tajikistan civil war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban-controlled Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tavildara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Tajik Opposition (UTO)]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=20186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tajikistan, a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia, has Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Pakistan as its bordering neighbors. The Rasht Valley, an administrative and geographic unit of Tajikistan, became the stronghold of the opposition forces during the Tajikistan Civil War (1992-1997). Rasht was the stronghold of the Islamists that belonged to the United Tajik [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guinea-Bissau: Africa’s Narco-State?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/guinea-bissau-africa%e2%80%99s-narco-state/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/guinea-bissau-africa%e2%80%99s-narco-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Mazitelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assassination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bomb attack]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nino Vieira]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tagme Na Waie]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=17673</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Drug trafficking on an industrial scale is happening in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The country is said to be the African gateway for European and South American cocaine. The country has also been ravaged by poverty, civil war (1998-1999) and a national culture of political murder. It is also said that regional distribution of Guinea-Bissau cocaine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican drugs in Ohio: educated youth as heroin sellers</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/mexican-drugs-in-ohio-educated-youth-as-heroin-sellers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dayton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=15552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents, school officials, and health care workers in Ohio have been shocked by revelations that abuse of prescription drugs and heroin is slowly replacing alcohol and marijuana abuse among the youth of the US state. The trend has been rising towards more lethal drugs as prescription pill abuse has progressed into synthetic narcotics like OxyContin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biggest drug bust in Afghanistan by US troops</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/biggest-drug-bust-in-afghanistan-by-us-troops/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/biggest-drug-bust-in-afghanistan-by-us-troops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan drug trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan poppy farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civilian deaths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug bust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heroin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heroin trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurgents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marjah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[militants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narcotics hub]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban drug profits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax on Afghan poppy farmers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[US and Afghan troops recently destroyed a stronghold of the drug trade in southern Afghanistan. The offensive launched in the city of Marjah was a vast military operation to gain control of a stronghold of Taliban insurgents that is also used as a hub for storage and processing of drugs. “The four-day operation has seriously [...]]]></description>
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