'Guatemala mafia killed officers'
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Guatemala's president says organised crime gangs ordered the murder of four policemen  held in a top security jail.
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LIMA, Peru  - Five police officers died on Sunday  in a shootout with supporters of an ex-soldier who took over a  police station in a southern Peru early on New Year's Day and  took 10 police hostage, RPP radio reported.
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Assailants shot dead four police officers in the western Mexican city of Aguascalientes on Thursday, the latest in a wave of slayings of law enforcement officers across Mexico.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Seven Colombian police  officers killed in a friendly fire clash with the army in March  might have been trying to steal cocaine, according to a probe  announced by a senior legal official on Monday.
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As Bush heads to the region, his key allies in Guatemala and El Salvador are reeling from gangland-style killings that many believe are related to drug smuggling and corruption
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A newly elected opposition lawmaker was shot and killed outside a popular Guatemalan tourist resort on Friday, the latest politician to be gunned down in an election year marred by violence.
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Guatemalan President Oscar Berger is struggling to contain fallout from the murders of politicians and policemen in an election-year scandal that has revealed drug gang links to high-level security forces.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Marxist rebels killed aColombian mayor while he supervised construction work onWednesday in his small town in the center of the country,police said.
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A group of Colombian soldiers were convicted on Monday of killing 10 police on an anti-drugs mission two years ago, a case that highlighted the corrupting power wielded by cocaine smugglers in this Andean country.
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Iraqi police found the bodies of 14 policemen on Friday, all shot in the head, and an al Qaeda-linked group said it had killed them to avenge the alleged rape of a woman last month.
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U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police on Tuesday killed a suspected gang leader wanted in the kidnap-slaying of a French businessman.
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Three high-ranking Iraqi police officers were among those killed in attacks on Saturday. Gunmen assassinated a police brigadier and a colonel in Baghdad and a police colonel was one of two officers killed in an ambush near Ash Sharqat in the north.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Machete-wielding supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are turning their wrath on Haiti's demoralized police force, beheading some of their victims in a campaign imitative of the insurgency in Iraq.    Seven of at least 18 people killed in the turmoil in Port-au-Prince have been police officers, judicial police chief Michael Lucius said Monday...
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Two Mexican federal police chiefs have been fired and handed over to prosecutors after a mob lynched three of their agents. Three anti-drug agents were beaten and burned alive on the outskirts of the capital
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Five police officers and two employees of Peru's state-run coca company were shot to death in a southern jungle state on Saturday, authorities said.
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VILLA NUEVA, Guatemala  - Slum dwellers armed with shotguns have taken to Guatemala's streets to hand vigilante justice to youth gangs as voters sick of crime increasingly back a hardline ex-general's run for president.
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Four Guatemalan policemen are held over the murders of three Salvadorean politicians in Guatemala City.