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Alleged finance officer of Zetas drug cartel detained
1. Mid of Valdemar Quintanilla Soriano, man identified by Mexican police as the No. 2 financial operator in the Zetas drug cartel, being presented to media after being detained, two masked soldiers escorting him
2. Close of Quintanilla...
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Plans to counter drug cartel violence on border
FILE: Calexico, California, US-Mexico Border - 28 October, 2008
1. Wide pan of border fence
2. Wide of US Border Patrol vehicle, with extendable mast equipped with camera
3. Close-up of Border Patrol agent scanning scenery with camera
4....
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Mexico captures 1 of 37 'most-wanted' drug traffickers
1. Exterior of official police building
2. Pan of detained drug traffickers being led into hall by masked and armed military police
3. Zoom out from close of Hector Huerta Rios to wide of him standing next to four other people detained...
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Prolific kidnapper caught
1. Wide shot of Mexico's Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha arriving at press conference
2. Mid shot of cameraman
3. Wide shot of press conference
4. Close up of photo of Liborio Colin Dominguez,
5. Mid shot of photo of Liborio...
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USA: KEY MEMBERS OF MAJOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING RING CAPTURED
Washington, DC & Chicago, Illinois, 10th - 11th October 1996
Washington, D.C:
1. W/S of press conference
2. Cutaway
3. SOUNDBITE Janet Reno, U.S. Attorney General
Chicago, Illinois:
4. W/S exterior of shop where drug operation was...
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Final preparations ahead of Obama visit
1. Wide of helicopter flying in the sky
2. Mid of troops
3. Various of troops
4. Various of security
5. Various of policemen forming a line
6. Mid of security officers
7. Pan of closed area, security
8. Various of security inspecting...
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EL SALVADOR: CRACKDOWN ON COMPANIES LAUNDERING DRUG MONEY
Spanish/Nat
El Salvador is waging war in the law courts against new businesses set up to launder drug money.
The Central American nation, commended by the United States for its efforts to combat narcotics trafficking, has become a...
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Vigilante ranchers, fruit growers kick out brutal drug cartel in western Mexican state
Vigilantes say that after they organized into self-defense groups they are free of the drug cartels in six municipalities in the violent Mexican state of Michoacan.
In Mexico they call it "the drop that makes the glass overflow," and it...
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COLOMBIA: SUSPECTED DRUG BARON SURRENDERS TO POLICE
Spanish/Nat
A man reputed to be one of Colombia's most violent cocaine traffickers surrendered to police Saturday - the fifth alleged boss of the Cali drugs cartel to be detained this month.
Phanor Arizabaleta said he wanted to 'submit...
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Coca cultivation in Colombia fell by a record 25 percent, according to UN report
FILE: Putumayo, Colombia - May 2012
1. Aerials of coca crops being destroyed
2. Various of workers destroying coca crops
Bogota, Colombia - 8 August 2013
3. Mid of Bo Mathiasen, representative of United Nations Office for Drugs and...
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COLOMBIA: INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT ERNESTO SAMPER
Spanish/Nat
The Colombian Congress has absolved President Ernesto Samper who was accused of drug corruption charges.
It was an important victory for Samper but did not resolve whether he can effectively govern a nation increasingly...
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Military tries to stem drug flow in Michoacan state
1. Police checking bus passengers and driver at road block
2. Close-up of officer searching bus passenger
3. Officers searching passengers facing bus
4. Mid shot of officers searching passengers
5. Various of people being searched
6....
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Officials announce they have seized at least 7 tonnes of cocaine
Counter-narcotic authorities in Colombia have seized seven tonnes (14,000 pounds) of cocaine in the port city of Cartagena.
Police said the drugs, seized on Tuesday inside a container carrying pineapple cans, were ready to be sent to a...
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Army finds 7.9 tons of marijuana in tunnel near airport
1. Close of entrance to tunnel with Mexican authorities gathered topside
2. Wide of officials and press surrounding entrance to the tunnel, journalist descending ladder
3. Close of tunnel entrance with Mexican authority looking into the...
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COLOMBIA: GOVERNMENT REVIEWING DRUG POLICING AGREEMENT WITH US
Spanish/Nat
The Colombian government is reviewing agreements which allow the D-E-A and C-I-A to take part in drug operations on its territory.
President's Ernesto Samper's government is smarting after Washington's decision last week to...
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Arrest of man accused of helping drug lord dispose of hundreds of victims
1. Patio of house where Santiago Meza is alleged to have used acid to get rid of bodies
2. Federal Police agent with camera
3. Two investigators putting on masks before entering the house
4. Police entering house as troops guard...
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MEXICO: 9 BODIES EXHUMED
Spanish/Nat
Nine bodies, including those of three U-S citizens, have been exhumed from clandestine graves in Mexico as investigations continue into the violent world of drug running.
Authorities suspect that these are murder victims...
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Son of drug cartel boss makes T-shirts with image of his father
The son of the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has created a clothing line using his father's name and image.
From his apartment in the Argentinian capital, Buenos Aires, 35-year-old Sebastian Marroquin shows off his line of...
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Funeral of victim of German mafia hit, coffins
Siderno, Calabria, southern Italy
1. Wide of church "Maria di Porto Salvo"
2. Various of security
3. Coffin entering the church
4. Mid exterior of church
5. Second coffin being unloaded
6. Carabinieri (Italian paramilitary police)...
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4:3 SEVEN KILLED IN LATEST VIOLENCE BETWEEN RIVAL DRUG GANGS
Mexican police have found seven dismembered bodies in a Pacific coast state where the country's most-wanted man is battling its most aggressive drug cartel.
The Attorney General's Office says the bodies were found early on Tuesday in...
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Central and South American militaries hold joint excercises to fight drug cartels
1. Various of military contingents from different countries (all from the American continent) ahead of the joint exercises
2. Wide of authorities during speeches
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Rear Admiral Thomas L. Brown, Commander, US Special...
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Calderon rules out joint raids with US in battle against cartels
1. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Mexican President Felipe Calderon at podiums
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Felipe Calderon, Mexican President:
"Well, it is true that we do have a problem of violence and organised crime that we have...
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COLOMBIA: PRESIDENT SAMPER QUESTIONED OVER DRUG CARTEL FUNDING
Spanish/Nat
Colombian President Ernesto Samper was questioned by the head of a congressional commission Tuesday about allegations his 1994 election campaign was funded by drug traffickers.
If the commission rules there's evidence to...
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ITALY: SICILY: COURT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MAFIA BOSS BEGIN
Shot Sicily, 3/7
1. Armoured van carrying Mafia members arrives
2. Interior courtroom
3. President of the court Antonio Serlazza in the courtroom
4. Bagarella in bullet proof cell
5. Long shot court room
6. SOUNDBITE Fileccia
7. Mother...