11.   The report indicates police not only protected drug traffickers, but openly aided them.

12.   They control vast tracts of southern jungle, financing their insurgency with kidnappings and by taxing peasants who grow drug crops and protecting drug traffickers.

13.   They control vast tracts of southern jungle, financing their insurgency by taxing peasants who grow drug crops and protecting drug traffickers.

14.   They frequently face gunfire, sometimes from leftist guerrillas protecting drug traffickers.

15.   U.S. officials have advocated spraying as the best way of eliminating coca from fields that are often defended by leftist guerrillas who partially finance their insurgency by protecting traffickers.

16.   US lawmakers have asserted that the Mexican government is rife with corruption and that officials at top levels have protected drug traffickers.