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COLOMBIA: BOGOTA: ALLEGED DRUG CARTEL LEADER ARRESTED
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Colombian police have arrested another leader of the notorious Cali drug cartel.
Jose Santacruz Londono, who's thought to be the number three figure in the group, was picked up by police officers (Tuesday), as he was...
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Alleged leader of the Juarez drug cartel arrested
Federal police arrested alleged Juarez drug cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in the northern city of Torreon on Thursday, Mexican officials announced.
51 year-old Carrillo Fuentes purportedly heads the cartel founded by his late...
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Army takes over public security in troubled region
1. Wide of security checkpoint around the headquarters of the Secretary of Public Security
2. Wide of headquarters of the Secretary of Public Security
3. Various of soldiers in positions around the headquarters
4. Various of Mayor of...
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COLOMBIA: 49 ALLEGED DRUG DEALERS ARRESTED
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Colombian authorities have captured 49 alleged drug dealers in a joint operation with the U-S Drug Enforcement Administration (D-E-A)
Authorities dubbed the operation "New Generation" because they say it is an example of a...
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Mexican authorities said Tuesday that an alleged founder of the Zetas drug cartel had an arsenal of 169 guns when he was captured Monday, and may have been linked to the abduction of nine Mexican marines.
HEADLINE Raw Video: Mexico says captured cartel leader had arsenal
CAPTION: Mexican authorities said Tuesday that an alleged founder of the Zetas drug cartel had an arsenal of 169 guns when he was captured Monday, and may have been...
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USA: WASHINGTON: UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA VISIT
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The Ukrainian president has denied that his government supplied aircraft to the Colombian Cali drug cartel.
On an official visit to Washington, President Leonid Kuchma said that it was a private Ukrainian company which...
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Drug cartels run clinics, force recovering addicts to work for them
1. Wide of drug rehabilitation centre meeting
2. Meeting coordinator talking
3. Man making gang signs to camera
4. Close of the hands of a meeting participant
5. Centre''s logo on wall
6. Sign reading (Spanish) ''Live and let live''
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Drug cartel
Zitacuaro
1. Various of march in support of mayor Juan Antonio Ixtlahuac, who was among the mayors detained in federal sweep
2. Various of march, protesters chanting and holding white balloons
3. Exterior of local attorney general's...
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USA: MEXICO: DRUGS - EDUARDO VALLE INTERVIEW
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Mexican Presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated by drug barons according to a former official from Mexico's Attorney General's office.
Speaking exclusively to APTV from his self-imposed exile in...
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+4:3 Hundreds mark first anniversary of self-defence uprising against cartel
Hundreds of vigilantes gathered in the Mexican state of Michoacan on Monday to celebrate the anniversary of a movement that helped rid the region of a violent drug cartel, and end a reign of terror in which farmers, ranchers and...
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Alleged drug kingpin arrested after shootout with police
1. Wide of plane transporting alleged drug kingpin Eugenio Montoya
2. Authorities waiting for Montoya to get off the plane
3. Officers leading a handcuffed Montoya out of the plane and escorting him towards building
4. Officials...
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WRAP President tours site of massacre, comment, scene
1. Wide of cordon around bodies with security forces in the background
2. Wide of police standing next to building
3. Soldiers standing next to fence
4. Close of dead body with hands tied behind back with string ++GRAPHIC SHOT++
5. Wide...
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Major Mexican drug dealer with US$2m bounty on head arrested
1. Wide exterior of Mexico attorney general''s office
2. Pan left of group of detainees being led into presentation
3. Suspected drug trafficker Jose Gerardo Alvarez Vazquez being presented to media
4. Four detainees being...
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Police arrest alleged successor of US-born drug lord "La Barbie"
1. Wide, zom in of Carlos Montemayor, and other alleged drug traffickers, being paraded in by masked police to present before media, in hangar
2. Close up Montemayor
3. Various of Montemayor, flanked by police
4. Wide Ramon Pequeno, head...
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More soldiers sent as part of crackdown
1. Various of convoys transporting soldiers to Ciudad Juarez
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Enrique Torres, Ciudad Juarez Joint Operation spokesman:
"Starting today and until Sunday, new army contingents are arriving. 5000 soldiers will be...
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Hundreds of vigilantes gathered in the western Mexico state of Michoacan on Monday to celebrate the first anniversary of the self-defense movement, which has largely ended the reign of terror by a violent drug cartel.
Hundreds of vigilantes gathered in the western Mexico state of Michoacan on Monday to celebrate the first anniversary of the self-defense movement, which has largely ended the reign of terror by a violent drug cartel.
Armed self-defense...
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Joint Colombian/US operation dismantles drug trafficking ring
1. Various of extradited people being shown to media
2. General Daniel Castro getting ready to give a press conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Daniel Castro, Chief of Colombia's police:
"A very serious investigation led us to dismantle a...
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Dozens of mutilated bodies found dumped on highway
1. Wide of highway leading to site bodies were dumped
2. Various of highway
3. Close of sign for highway to Cadereyta
4. STILL of night scene with police at site where bodies were dumped
5. STILL of closed highway and police where bodies...
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WRAP Preps and security ahead of Obama visit; anti US demos
1. Policemen next to US embassy
2. Security personnel outside embassy entrance
3. Various, woman holding placards outside embassy reading: (English/Spanish) "Full rights for all immigrants" and "Obama Migratory agreement now "
4. Close...
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USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON: COLOMBIA DRUGS WAR PRESS CONFERENCE
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President Bill Clinton claimed today that the US was making headway on its war on drugs in Colombia.
And he said the authorities were on the verge of breaking up the Cali drugs cartel.
The President was addressing a news...
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COLOMBIA: ANOTHER ARREST MADE IN CONNECTION WITH DRUG CARTEL
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Colombian authorities have struck another blow to the Cali cartel.
Police arrested a sister of the reputed founders of the Cali cartel during a raid on an apartment in north Bogota.
Rafaela Rodriguez Orejuela faces charges...
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US aid includes 8 armoured vehicles to help fight against drug cartels
1. Various of US Embassy representative, Leslie Basset, handing over keys to representative from Mexican Attorney General's Office, Rafael Ibarra
2. Various of vehicle donated by US government
3. Various of Basset and Ibarra looking at...
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Report on stockpile of weapons seized from drug cartels
1. Wide shot exterior military warehouse where seized weapons are being stored
2. Medium of two soldiers guarding entrance
3. Tilt down interior warehouse, weapons stored and catalogued inside metal rack
4. Close rifle barrels
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MEXICO: TOP DRUGS POLICEMAN ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION
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A top Mexican drugs policeman , Attorney General Antonio Lozano has been accused of corruption by another former anti-drug official.
Ricardo Cordero, a former Attorney General's office official, has accused Lozano of...