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HONDURAS
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1 NOV 2010
Two Honduran diplomats reported being kidnapped temporarily by unknown perpetrators in Veracruz, Mexico last Saturday. But the state…
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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1 NOV 2010
With occasional advice from a "witch," a group of police and military officials sold arms to the FARC's…
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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1 NOV 2010
Lack of inter-agency cooperation is hindering efforts to stem arms trafficking at the U.S-Mexico border,…
1 NOV 2010
Echoing a statistic published three months ago by the UNODC, Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera said that…
EL VICEROY
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1 NOV 2010
The Diario de Juarez published a moving editorial over the weekend entitled "What Do You Want From…
COLOMBIA
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1 NOV 2010
Colombian authorities arrested 20 people in 4 different cities in Colombia who formed part of a network that helped send…
COLOMBIA
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1 NOV 2010
Suspected members of the Rastrojos criminal gang threw a grenade at a small store in Tumaco, a city along the Pacific…
COLOMBIA
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1 NOV 2010
Six members of Colombia's navy were arrested on charges of helping the criminal gang known as the Rastrojos, the Associated…
ALFONSO CANO
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1 NOV 2010
September has been one of the bloodiest months on record in recent years for Colombia's armed forces with guerrilla ambushes…
BELTRAN LEYVA ORG
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1 NOV 2010
Mexico's newspaper La Crónica says there are ten versions of how the drug trafficker and hitman Edgar Valdez Villareal,…
COLOMBIA
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1 NOV 2010
Emerging Criminal Groups or BACRIM's are overrunning mercury mines in Córdoba and Antioquia, President Juan Manuel Santos announced.
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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1 NOV 2010
Five men, two of them ex-military, carrying explosives, weapons, flak jackets and T-shirts with the letters "MFG" were arrested in…
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