This was not your typical drug bust — the breaking up of a meth lab or some seedy way station in the illicit drug trade. (fortune.com)
These could come from armed groups such as the ELN, or one of the many right - wing and criminal groups involved in the illicit drug trade and other forms of transnational organised crime that plague the country. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
More than 220,000 have been killed in the ensuing conflict which became every time more intertwined with the illicit drug trade, involving not only the FARC, but also other insurgent, paramilitary and criminal groups. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)