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Alleged cocaine lab found, Czechs arrested
1. Various of police and media inside house
2. Various of laboratory
3. Various of family snapshot
4. Various of drug-making paraphernalia
5. Exterior shots of house
Military officials raided a house in a wealthy Mexico City...
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Self-defence movement take over another town after clashes left 2 dead and 3 wounded
Members of a self-defence movement have taken over another town in the Mexican state of Michoacan amid confrontations that left two people dead and three wounded.
According to authorities, the clash took place in a village near the town...
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Alleged top drug cartel member arrested in restaurant
August 29, 2007
1. Wide exterior of Attorney General's Office
2. Close-up front of offices
3. Various of soldiers arriving at offices
4. STILL: Police photograph of alleged high-ranking Gulf drug cartel member, Juan Carlos de La Cruz...
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WRAP Mass arrests in probe of organised crime families
New York City - 20 Jan, 2011
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....
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4:3 President tours site of massacre, scene
1. Wide of cordon around bodies with security forces in the background
2. Wide of police standing next to building
3. Soldiers standing next to fence
4. Close of dead body with hands tied behind back with string ++GRAPHIC SHOT++
5. Wide...
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4:3 People angered by presence of vigilantes set fire to vehicles at road block
Cars and lorries were set ablaze on Friday by residents in a town in western Mexico to protest the arrival of more than 100 vigilantes.
The burning vehicles blocked roads leading into Paracuaro in Michoacan state before federal police...
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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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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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Obama presser on economy, comments on AIG, MidEast, Mexico
1. Wide of US President Barack Obama walking into news conference
2. Pan from media to Obama
3. Wide of Obama at podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"The most critical part of our strategy is to ensure that we do...
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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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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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Human rights groups say US, Mexico indifferent to exploitation
Agua Caliente, San Antonio La Paz, Guatemala - 27 August 2010
1. Exterior of house of family of Gilmar Augusto Morales, one of the Guatemalan migrants killed in Tamaulipas
2. Family watching news footage of the massacre
3. Children of...
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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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Why threat of drug related violence has led to troop deployment
AP Television
Caserta, southern Italy - October 1, 2008
1. Wide soldiers lined up at Caserta base for parade
2. Soldier playing bugle
3. Italian Minister of Defence, Ignazio La Russa, right, walking towards soldiers
4. La Russa...
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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...