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Colombian top cop wants UN post as Drug Czar
1. Retired General Rosso Jose Serrano entering room and greeting AP staff
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Rosso Jose Serrano, former Chief of Colombian National Police:
"The task at hand at the United Nations is the one I've worked on all my...
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MEXICO: MEXICAN ASSOCIATE OF COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS IS ARRESTED
Spanish/Nat
A suspected Mexican associate of Colombian drug traffickers was put under house arrest last week, the Mexican Attorney General Office said Wednesday.
Manuel Rodriguez Lopez, administrator of several fishing enterprises, is...
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MEXICO: PROTESTS AGAINST BANKS MONEY LAUNDERING ALLEGATIONS
Spanish/Nat
Protesters gathered outside a major bank in Mexico City to protest the lack of supervision in the banking system and to demand that the government cracks down on money laundering.
The protest was staged by members of El...
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Mexico's largest shale and gas reserves now open to private investors
Mexico is stepping up efforts to protect its oil industry and tame the brutal drug cartels that rule its rich shale fields along the Gulf Coast and are stealing billions of dollars worth of oil from pipelines.
Figures released by...
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BOLIVIA: POLICE CRACK DOWN ON COCA GROWERS
Spanish/Nat
Bolivian police are cracking down on coca growers as part of a massive government drugs eradication programme.
Bolivia is trying to comply with pressure from the U-S government to meet a second deadline to eradicate...
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+4:3 30,000 killed in drug violence since 2006 crackdown, gov says
Mexico City - 16 December 2010
1. Mid of Mexican Attorney General Arturo Chavez walking to lectern
2. Cutaway cameras
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Arturo Chavez, Mexican Attorney General:
"There is an important weakening of criminal groups...
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COLOMBIA: FARC THREAT TO COUNTRY'S DEMOCRACY WARNING
Spanish/Nat
The Colombian armed forces are warning that the country's largest rebel group has become the world's most powerful drug cartel.
The army says the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces- known as FARC - have taken over the...
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Officials parade suspected leader of Zetas drug cartel after capture
1. Pan left of soldiers escorting alleged 'Zetas' leader Alfredo Aleman Narvaez, alias 'El Comandante Aleman', into media presentation
2. Close of Aleman
3. Wide of Aleman, manacled, being presented to media flanked by masked, armed...
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Italian banker accused of mob ties reacts to court approving extradition
1. Zoom in as Vito Roberto Palazzolo is escorted out of detention centre
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vito Roberto Palazzolo, Italian fugitive
"I'm very happy to go back home."
3. Zoom in as woman who claims to be Vito's wife tries to talk...
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Government starts to legalise vigilante forces that formed to oust drug cartel
Mexico's government on Saturday began demobilising a vigilante movement of assault-rifle-wielding ranchers and farmers that had succeeded in largely expelling the Knights Templar cartel from the western state of Michoacan when...
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EXCLUSIVE AP on frontline with army cracking down on drug cartels
Reynosa, 17 March 2009
1. Soldiers raiding house, kicking down doors, camera pans from them to man on the ground in doorway, pan back to soldiers, pan into room full of Central American migrants who were held in captivity, according to...
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Colombian govt says it has arrested a top drug baron
1. Air force plane on runway at airport
2. Colombian defence minister, Juan Manuel Santos getting off plane with military commanders and delegates
3. Zoom into President Alvaro Uribe (partially hidden) greeting generals at airport
4....
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Suspected top man in group of hit men for drug cartel arrested
1. Various of accused Sergio Pena Mendoza being led over the tarmac by federal police into the police hangar at the Mexico City International Airport
2. Cutaway of media taking pictures of Mendoza
3. Wide Mendoza standing in front of...
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Mennonite anti-crime activist, 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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PHILIPPINES: MANILA: 40 SMUGGLED ELEPHANT TUSKS FOUND DURING RAID
English/Nat
Philippine government agents stumbled on to a surprise find during a drugs raid in downtown Manila - about forty smuggled elephant tusks.
National Bureau of Investigation agents also seized about fifty grammes of...
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Drug cartels use fear tactics to empty towns near US border
1. Wide of truck with family''s belongings tied to back as they prepare to leave their home
2. Close up of mattresses on back of truck, Mexican flag flying
3. Little girl running past truck
4. Young girl hugging stuffed animal
5. Truck...
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Bodies of migrants massacred in Mexico are returned
1. Arrival of military plane
2. Various of soldiers unloading coffins of the Salvadoran migrants killed in Mexico
3. Wide of coffins with El Salvador flag lined up for ceremony in hangar, relatives seated nearby
4. Various of relatives,...
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GNS WEEKLY NEWS: COLOMBIA: BOMB REACTION
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Hours after a car bomb killed eight people in a wealthy part of Bogota - evoking fears of a renewed narco-terrorist campaign - Colombian President Andres Pastrana has sent a firm message to the attack's suspected...
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COLOMBIA: ALLEGED DRUG CARTEL LEADER MURCIA ARRESTED
Spanish/Nat
Colombian police have captured a man accused of being one of South America's largest cocaine traffickers.
Luis Reinaldo Murcia Sierra had organised drug routes through Peru, Brazil, Venezuela and Panama.
A two year...
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Police arrest suspected cartel boss
1. Various Eden Campusano Sierra (left - dark shirt) and Landa Torres alias "el Flaco" (right - light shirt) being presented before the media
2. Close of Eden Campusano alias "el Chino"
3. Mid Campusano (left) and Torres (right)
4. Mid...
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MEXICO: OAXACA: ANTI DRUG FORCE RAID
1.Anti drugs forces aboard helicopters
2.Forces hacking down cannabis plants
3.Forces burning pile of cannabis
4.Soundbite Calderon
5. M/s forces pouring petrol on pile of cannabis
6. C/s cannabis being lit
7. C/s cannabis plants being...
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COLOMBIA: PRESIDENT SAMPER'S REACTION TO ALLEGATIONS MADE AGAINST HIM
Spanish/Nat
President Ernesto Samper, on Thursday, denied allegations he promised Cali drug leaders a plea bargain in order to secure their surrender.
The allegations were made on Wednesday by Guillermo Pallomari, former chief ...
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Greece - Party members from extremist right-wing Golden Dawn party appear in court / Three far-right lawmakers from Golden Dawn party released, one jailed / Far right Golden Dawn party leader arrives at court to testify in criminal case against party / Head of Golden Dawn jailed pending trial on charges of running criminal organisation / Anti-fascist protesters march ahead of Golden Dawn rally
Party members from extremist right-wing Golden Dawn party appear in court
Athens - 1 Oct 2013
1. Golden Dawn party members, two with their heads covered, being escorted into courthouse
2. Police standing outside courthouse
Three...
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Special army unit to help police crack down on crime in violence-hit capital
A newly created military police force in Honduras paraded in front of the president on Thursday.
The force will help civilian police fight crime in the violence-plagued country, which according to United Nations, has the highest murder...