The correct option is "illegal drug trade "
The development of drug trafficking in a growing number of countries is one of the most significant phenomena in recent Latin American history. Its development has been and is conditioned by a constellation of factors, forces and processes, both international and national, by their intertwining and interactions. Both converge in the expanded and modified reproduction of drug addiction and trafficking, as pre-existing phenomena but which are acquiring unprecedented characteristics, and feedback capabilities and influence on the forces and structures that helped to generate and promote them.
This phenomenon-process is characterized by its rapid ascent and its seemingly irresistible and irreversible progress, by its complexity and multidimensionality, by its multiple implications and projections, by the difficulties for its control and cancellation.