11.   Most of the U.S. assistance is earmarked to help the Colombian government battle Marxist guerrillas who earn millions of dollars annually in the narcotics trade.

12.   Some lawmakers said decertifying Mexico would do nothing to address the demand for drugs in the United States, which is helping drive the narcotics trade.

13.   The FARC earns millions of dollars annually from the illegal narcotics trade.

14.   The larger amount would buy helicopters to help stop the narcotics trade.

15.   The narcotics trade is nothing new in Mexico, which has long supplied the U.S. market with much of its marijuana and heroin.

16.   The principal difference between the narcotics trade and legitimate commerce, of course, is that the drug business must operate in the shadow of the law.

17.   The rural economy, especially in the usual opium-poppy areas, had come to rely on the narcotics trade.

18.   The U.S. has repeatedly called for the country to return to civilian rule and a curbing of its narcotics trade.

19.   They established that the narcotics trade was seducing officials at higher levels than previously known.

20.   They said the Taliban profited from the narcotics trade in two main ways.