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Mistrial on most serious counts in Gotti Mafia trial
1. Wide shot Federal courthouse
2. Mid shot John Gotti Jr. lawyer leaving courthouse
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeffrey Lichtman, Lawyer for John Gotti Jr.:
"The jury has spoken loud and clear there was not a single allegation against John...
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PANAMA: PANAMA CITY: DRUG TRAFFICKING IS ON THE INCREASE
Spanish/Nat
Drug trafficking through Panama is on the increase despite a high profile anti-narcotics campaign.
Police have scored several major victories in the war against drugs especially the recent arrest of the alleged leader of the...
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Convoy carrying Noriega arrives at court, lawyers comment
1. Wide exterior of the back entrance to the Palace of Justice
2. Close up of security camera
3. Wide of convoy, believed to be bringing Manuel Noriega to court, arrive at back entrance AUDIO: police sirens
4. Mid rear view of the...
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Colombia - Drug lord turns himself in to police
The last fugitive leader of the world's largest cocaine cartel surrendered to police in Colombia on Sunday (1/9/) after years on the run and following months of sporadic negotiations between prosecutors and his lawyers. Helmer Herrera...
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Govt deploy troops in city to deal with violence
1. Various of army trucks entering Ciudad Juarez
2. Tracking shot of queue of army vehicles preparing to enter the city
3. Various of queue of vehicles driving
4. Close up of masked soldier on the truck
5. Various of the trucks full of...
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AP intw with Mexican President Vicente Fox
1. Wide shot of Mexican President Vicente Fox entering press conference
2. Cutaway of press
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Vicente Fox, Mexican President:
"On security, organised crime, and drugs, we are fighting hard attaining very important...
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COLOMBIA: RAMON GONZALEZ LAZO ARRESTED ON DRUGS CHARGES
Spanish/Nat
A privately owned Boeing 707 was seized at Medellin airport on Wednesday and the owner arrested on drugs smuggling charges.
Peruvian-born Ramon Gonzalez Lazo, is believed to have links with the once powerful Cali drug...
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Violence from drug cartels forces residents of Mexican border town to flee
Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas - 19 November 2010
1. Tracking shot from inside vehicle of empty street
2. Car driving down empty street
3. Wide of burnt-out building
4. Tracking shot inside burnt-out building, showing damage
5. Burnt-out...
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4:3 Suspected mobsters arrested in probes of organised crime families
1. Wide of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and New York Police Department (NYPD) officers processing suspected mobsters
2. Close of FBI jacket pan to NYPD jacket
3. Tilt up, man in handcuffs
4. Mid of another man in...
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COLOMBIA: GOVERNMENT DECLARE STATE OF EMERGENCY
Natural Sound
The Colombian government declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, one day after the arrest of a former defence minister on charges of using drug money to finance President Ernesto Samper's 1994 election campaign.
But...
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Gunmen attack two army garrisons, firefights kill 18 attackers, presser
1. Wide of news briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Edgar Luis Villegas, Mexican Army General:
"These actions by the criminal groups are desperate reactions by criminal gangs to the progress being made by federal authorities in coordination...
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Attorney General talks about results of army intervention in Michoacan
Mexico City, Mexico - 14 December, 2006
1. Medium exterior of Attorney General's Office
2. Wide of Attorney General, Eduardo Medina Mora, walking into press conference
3. Medium of Medina Mora sitting and facing the press
4. Medium...
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SYND 31 1 77 REPORT ON DRUG SMUGGLING IN BANGKOK
Report from Bangkok on drugs smuggling ring "Bangkok Connection" which, according to Dutch police report may have been broken.
1. various of heroin smokers2. cu Dutch police officer interviewed SOUNDBITE (English): as far as we can...
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Thousands of soldiers rip up marijuana in top drug-producing region
1. Aerial shot from helicopter of marijuana plantation
2. Mid of soldiers descending from helicopter
3. Wide of helicopter taking off and soldier walking
4. Wide of soldiers walking through marijuana plantation
5. Close of soldiers...
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USA: MEXICO USED AS TRANSIT POINT FOR DRUGS DESTINED FOR US
1.Helicopter spraying
2.Mexican anti-drug police burning marijuana plants
3.Soundbite: Former ambassador of Mexico to the United States.
4.New speaker, Valle goes to podium
5.Soundbite: Eduardo Valle, Special advisor on anti-narcotics...
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COLOMBIA: DRUGS SCANDAL ROCKS GOVERNMENT
Spanish/Nat
Scandal continues to rock Colombian President Ernesto Samper as allegations continue that his election team accepted millions of dollars from one of the world's most powerful drugs cartels.
The allegations have plunged the...
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4 killed in ambush on convoy carrying top security official
1. Tracking shot of body lying on street, police officers arriving at scene
2. Paramedics carrying wounded woman on stretcher
3. Injured person being treated in ambulance
4. Firefighter putting out fire in vehicle
5. Paramedics...
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Acting federal police chief murdered
AP Television
Mexico City, Mexico - May 8, 2008
1. Wide exterior of Edgar Millan Gomez's home
2. Pan right wide investigators outside his home
3. Zoom in then out of investigators exiting the property
4. Zoom out close on bullet holes in...
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MEXICO: TOP OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION AND DRUG TRAFFICKING
Spanish/Nat
Two US administrations knew about links between drug barons and people close to former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the New York Times reported today (Tuesday).
The newspaper said Washington's continued...
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Mennonite anti-crime activist and neighbour killed by gunmen
1. Wide of two members of the Mormon community at house of one of the deceased, Benjamin LeBaron, to pay their respects
2. Various of Mormon community consoling family
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Julian LeBaron, brother of one of the...
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Mexico to triple federal police presence in state that is base of drug cartel
Morelia, 16 July 2009
1. Various of recently deployed Federal Police units in various parts of the city
2. Police helicopter flying overhead
Mexico City, 15 July 2009
3. Wide of Interior Minister Fernando Gomez Mont entering news...
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President Barack Obama embarked on a new year of foreign policy by welcoming Mexico's embattled president to the White House Tuesday, seeking help to jump start a new U.S. approach to immigration, Cuba and trade. (Jan. 6)
President Barack Obama embarked on a new year of foreign policy by welcoming Mexico's embattled president to the White House Tuesday, seeking help to jump start a new U.S. approach to immigration, Cuba and trade.
Mexican President...
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GERMANY : PRESIDENT SAMPER OF COLOMBIA VISITS GERMANY
Spanish/Nat
On the last day of his three-day visit to Germany, Colombian president Ernesto Samper pledged he will not leave office despite the political turmoil in his country.
Samper is in Germany for talks on how to strengthen trade...
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Colombian and US police dismantle drug ring
1. Arrested people being shown to the press
2. Medium shot of three arrested people then pan right
3. Close up of hand cuffs
4. Pan over arrested people
5. Various arrested people
6. Wide shot news briefing
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish)...