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COLOMBIA: CALI DRUGS CARTEL - FRONT MAN DETAINED
Spanish/Nat
Colombian police have detained one of the country's most important alleged "front men" from the notorious Cali drugs cartel.
Oscar Fernando Cuevas Cepeda is suspected of financing a whole network of "front companies" to...
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COLOMBIA: PRESIDENT PASTRANA WELCOMES US PRESIDENT VISIT
Spanish/Nat
Colombian president Andres Pastrana has welcomed a forthcoming visit by U-S President Bill Clinton.
Clinton's visit to Colombia will take place at the end of the month.
The trip is designed to show support for Pastrana's...
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4:3 Gunmen kill 12 police officers sent to investigate beheadings
1. Mid of body covered with blanket
2. Mid of police vehicle with bullet holes
3. Pool of blood on ground
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Arturo Martinez, Guerrero State Police Spokesman:
"On the highway leading to Ixtepec, there was an attack...
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Colombia - President Denies Role In Drug Industry
President denies role in drug industry
Colombian President Ernesto Samper went on nationwide television
on Sunday (6/8) to deny any involvement in a high-level drug
corruption scandal. He said that the arrest of cartel kingpin
Miguel...
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Unarmed vigilantes assist government forces in gang-held city
Members of the newly created Rural Defence Corps drove into the Mexican city of Apatzingan on Sunday, a former stronghold of the Knights Templar drug cartel.
Mexico legalised the growing "self-defence" movement in the western Michoacan...
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Attorney General presents top cartel member after arrest
1. Wide exterior of Attorney General's special offices for the Investigation of Organised Crime
2. Police leading detainees into presentation room where media are awaiting
3. Close of detainee Isaac Manuel Godoy Castro, alleged top...
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COLOMBIA: BOGOTA: JULIAN MURCILLO CAPTURED BY POLICE
Spanish/Nat
Another major player in Colombia's drug cartel world has been captured by police.
Julian Murcillo was arrested as a suspect Friday night in Bogota accompanied by a woman and another man. Police say they confirmed his identity...
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WRAP Day shots following skirmish between police, soldiers and gunmen
1. Wide of house where gunmen took refuge after shoot out
2. Police vehicle parked on street
3. Various of doctors being searched as they enter hospital
4. Various of armed security
5. Various of headlines in newspapers
6. Various of...
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Counter-narcotic authorities in Colombia have seized seven tonnes (14,000 pounds) of cocaine in the port city of Cartagena.
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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Violence escalating between Mexican vigilantes and drug traffickers in Guerrero State
The daughter-in-law of a Mexican business leader was killed as the vehicle they were travelling in was shot at by armed men just hours after he marched in support of vigilantes, local media reported.
Businessman Pioquinto Damian Huato...
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SPAIN: THREE TONS OF COCAINE FOUND ON BOARD SHIP
Spanish/Nat
Thirteen people are being held in custody following Spain's biggest drugs haul.
Customs agents found nearly three tons of cocaine worth 200 million dollars after boarding a Panamanian registered oil tanker in the Atlantic...
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COLOMBIA: POLICE QUESTION TOP LEADER OF CALI DRUGS CARTEL
Spanish/Nat
Colombian police Tuesday questioned a top leader of the Cali drugs cartel after his arrest a day earlier.
Henry Loaiza, alias "The Scorpion," is considered one of the most violent members of the cocaine cartel and is accused...
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English version of AP interview with outgoing president
1. Set up shot of President Vicente Fox inside official residence "Los Pinos " shaking hands with journalists
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vicente Fox, President of Mexico:
"What we, the practice we follow, is we don't speculate whether we...
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COLOMBIA: BOGOTA: LAWYER OF PRESIDENT SAMPER SHOT IN ATTACK
Spanish/Nat
The lawyer of Colombian President Ernesto Samper has been shot and wounded in attack in Bogota - which left two bodyguards dead. .
Antonio Jose Cancino was on his way to a local radio station when the gunmen opened fire on...
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More troops deployed to violence-hit border city
Ciudad Juarez - 28 February 2009
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...
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Five bodies, one of them headless, found in a van at the border city
August 5, 2009
1. Wide of police scene and vehicle in which five bodies were found
2. Medium of jeep containing bodies
3. Police cars and soldiers on site
4. Investigation vehicle on site
5. Wide of vehicle and policemen on site
6....
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Aftermath of plane crash kills interior min and at least 7 others
1. Vendor selling newspapers, tilt down to newspaper with headline and picture about plane crash
2. Wide of aftermath of crash site with destroyed vehicle
3. Wreckage of vehicle
4. Public security officers in riot gear stand guard at...
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Police dig up 89 bodies in repair lot
16 May 2011
1. Wide of empty dirt lot where 89 bodies where found buried
2. Mid of partially destroyed fence around lot, old police tape
3. Refocus from wire to old shoe on dirt lot
4. Wide of abandoned excavation
5. Close of box...
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Drug cartel arrests, mayors and public officials held
Morelia, Michoacan - 26 May 2009
1. Wide of Federal police officers inside State Attorney General's office, leaving building
2. Police officer on guard outside State Attorney General's office
3. Police officers escorting detained...
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US Homeland Security Sec, US Attorney General visit country
1. Wide of US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Interior Minister Fernando Gomez-Mont arriving for news conference
2. Mid of Napolitano and Gomez-Mont
3. Cutaway of photographers
4. Mexican Public Safety Secretary...
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COLOMBIA: PRESIDENT SAMPER DRUG CARTEL FUNDING INVESTIGATION
Spanish/Nat
The Colombian President Ernesto Samper has undergone nine hours of questioning over allegations that the Cali drug cartel helped fund his 1994 election campaign.
He has strenuously denied the accusations and called for the...
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COLOMBIA: GOVERNMENT DECLARE STATE OF EMERGENCY UPDATE
Spanish/Nat
Colombians are glued to their television sets and radios following the government's decision to declare a 90-day state of emergency.
The move comes 24 hours after the arrest of former Defence Minister Fernando Botero for...
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Police present 36 alleged members of La Familia Michoacana
1. Wide of armed police standing in front of detention truck with confiscated weapons
2. Mid of armed police with faces covered
3. Mid of suspects, guarded by police officers
4. Close-up of suspects
5. Pan of suspects
6. Wide of...
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Funeral of slain politician in El Salvador; arrest in Guatemala
Guatemala City
1. Military police in hallway, zoom into close up of suspect being escorted into hallway
2. Various of suspect being escorted by police
3. Medium of suspect being escorted into room
4. Medium of officer
5. Cameras at...