21.   Drug gangs wage bloody turf wars along the U.S. border.

22.   Drug gangs have even paid children to spread small amounts of cocaine powder on waiting cars as a way of diverting Customs dogs.

23.   Drug gangs, realizing the importance of controlling trade routes through the region, also eagerly contribute fighters.

24.   Experts note that an aging population, longer prison sentences and informal peace pacts by drug gangs to divide turf have had an impact.

25.   For years, the border center of Ciudad Juarez has been the base for the Juarez cartel, a drug gang formerly run by Amado Carrillo Fuentes.

26.   Galvez had been representing Jesus Labra Aviles, who was arrested in Tijuana on suspicion he was the top financial operative for the Arellano Felix drug gang.

27.   He also was afraid that if he replaced her with a new lawyer, the leader of the drug gang would learn that he had become an informant.

28.   He claimed gains in the level of education, health care and reduction in government corruption and the power of illegal drug gangs.

29.   He claimed gains in the level of education, health care and reductions in government corruption and the power of illegal drug gangs.

30.   He insisted that only when the state quells the violence of drug gangs, right-wing paramilitaries and leftist rebels can society begin to rebuild itself.