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Putting major drug
traffickers
behind bars at the new maximum-security prison at Pul-i-Charki, near Kabul, would be a good start.
Allowing opium
traffickers
to operate with impunity gives them a free hand to raise money to pay for the arms and fighters battling the Afghan army and NATO forces.
There is no point in trying to win the hearts and minds of major drug
traffickers.
We must punish the
traffickers
and reward the farmers.
At the very least, their collusion enables the
traffickers
to obtain fuel, spare parts, accommodation, and guides.
A few major drug seizures by a professional group of counter-narcotics agents would make drug
traffickers
change their perception of West Africa as a low risk/high benefit transit route.
Nigeria’s radical gender inequality reflects a widespread tolerance of discrimination against girls, which facilitates the brutal actions of extremist groups like Boko Haram and creates fertile ground for
traffickers.
In Honduras, the gangs are more connected with organized crime, because the policy of cleaning the streets has pushed many gang members to align with drug
traffickers
for protection.
When a network of human
traffickers
turns the Mediterranean into a mass grave, Europe cannot simply turn away.
State officials themselves are among the worst human
traffickers.
The result has been a sort of pax mafiosa: consolidated, regionally legitimized actors, with drug traffickers, old paramilitary groups, new criminal bands, large landholders, and political caciques reinforcing one another.
Mexico is consumed by its failed drug war, which has cost more than 25,000 lives and, according to just published US government statistics, has deterred Colombian cocaine traffickers, but has fostered dramatic increases in Mexican production of heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamines.
Indeed, by doing too little to manage migration and integration, some governments have ceded control to smugglers, traffickers, and exploitative employers, thereby contributing to social division and hampering economic growth.
To the traffickers, these women are expendable.
Cocaine used to be America’s problem, to the point that the United States started a major campaign against sellers and consumers of crack cocaine in the inner cities, drug traffickers, and suppliers in the Andes.
Young girls are targeted by
traffickers
and vanish into an abyss of unimaginable depravity.
Most notably, the EU has tripled the budget of Operation Triton, designed to strengthen border security; launched an EU-wide naval operation against human smugglers and
traffickers
in the Mediterranean (EUNAVFOR Med); and allocated additional funds to overwhelmed frontline member countries.
At the London Conference, world leaders should support the counter-narcotics strategy recently approved by the Afghan government, which would reduce economic dependence on opium production, punish
traffickers
and dealers, and provide sustainable economic alternatives for poppy farmers.
National and international action against the
traffickers
must be stepped up, and it should include targeting those who run the networks, rather than expending scarce law-enforcement resources to pursue their foot soldiers.
But reforming drug laws, offering chronic users proper treatment, and vigorously pursuing high-level drug
traffickers
will reduce the damaging impact of illegal drugs on communities, families, and individuals.
These dropouts often sign up with gangs, drug traffickers, even jihadists.
Bolivia's peasant coca cultivators are viewed not as indigenous people trying to survive in a region mostly without jobs, but as drug
traffickers.
In the Andaman Sea, thousands of migrants have been stranded on boats without a port of disembarkation, while
traffickers
hold them for ransom; similar vulnerabilities have been observed in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and the Central American corridor.
But this has not deterred thousands of others from risking the same journey and putting their lives in the hands of human
traffickers
and criminal gangs.
These fundamentalists, becoming bandits of sorts, came to terms with the nomadic
traffickers.
All, including the traffickers, ended up embracing the fundamentalist rhetoric of revenge against infidels.
Finally, interdiction efforts should focus on traffickers, not on those whom they exploit.
But eradication and alternative livelihood projects mainly affect the lowest end of the value-added chain, the farmers, with no real impact on those higher up, such as large landowners and local traffickers, not to mention the extremely powerful drug lords and the international cartels and mafias.
Most landless farmers find it difficult to switch to different crops, being caught up as they are in the illegal opium-denominated market, which forces them to live at the mercy of the drug traffickers, who provide them with access to credit and market outlets.
Despite tough sentencing guidelines and zero-tolerance policies, drug use is increasing while drug
traffickers
operate with impunity.
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