1.   At the same time, the two sides have engaged in talks on jointly combating the drug trade.

2.   Consider the school principal who discovers students wearing beepers to stay in contact with their superiors in the drug trade.

3.   Corrupt customs officials have helped the drug trade to flourish.

4.   Expansion of the international drug trade, exploiting the inner-urban under-class.

5.   Experts disagree about the extent of the expansion of Tupac Amaru and Sendero Luminoso into the drug trade.

6.   For their part, neither Carrillo nor Guzman are considered pacifists within the drug trade.

7.   In view of this, the drugs trade looks like a Godsend.