Colombia Police Aim to Disrupt Drug Trade
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Seven helicopter gunships skirted the steep mountainsides, then quickly descended on a cocaine lab, marked by a smoke grenade thrown by one of the raiders. As the heavily armed anti-narcotics police jumped from the hovering craft, accompanied by an informant wearing a ski mask, peasants who worked the coca fields and in the complex scampered away.
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Colombia's top drugs lord, known as the "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of metric tons of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday in the country's biggest narcotics arrest in years.
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Colombian authorities were left red-faced on Friday trying to explain why they picked up the wrong prisoner in a high-security transfer of a top druglord to a ship at sea in an attempt to better protect him.
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President Bush aims to highlight American drug-fighting aid in Colombia and boost a conservative Latin American leader with a stop in the Andean nation where thousands of security forces are deployed to safeguard his brief stay.
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The Colombian police have captured a reputed leader of the drug cartel held responsible for half the cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s.
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An English drugs traffiking gang is thought to be behind a cocaine haul seized by police off the Irish coast.
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Colombia said on Monday it had seized $400 million in property, including a Caribbean island, from a cocaine baron arrested in Brazil this month and is awaiting extradition to the United States on drug charges.
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Mexico's government said Thursday it would send troops and police to root out drug smugglers in several states, expanding an offensive that began this week in one violence-plagued state where soldiers clashed with traffickers trying to protect a marijuana field.
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- An investigation by the Colombian Defense Ministry has found that drug traffickers and rebels from the country's largest guerrilla group infiltrated the U.S.-backed military here, paying high-ranking officers for classified information to help elude capture and continue smuggl...
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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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Colombia's top drug lord, who earned the title "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of tonnes of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday, the country's biggest narcotics arrest in a decade.
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Colombia extradited a top cocaine trafficker to the United States on Thursday to face trial, hoping that testimony he gives will help dismantle the Andean country's toughest drug cartel.
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A new wave of drug kingpins is emerging in Colombia &#151; traffickers who operate from the shadows, seeking only profits and avoiding the excesses of previous generations of drug lords, a top intelligence official said.
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By Hugh Bronstein and Pascal Fletcher BOGOTA/CARACAS  - A top Colombian guerrilla wasprotected by Venezuelan officials before his capture, an actionthat has triggered the worst dispute in years between theAndean countries, Colombia said on Sunday.
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Backed by 4,000 police officers, the Colombian government seized control of the nation's largest pharmacy chain on Friday, saying its creation and expansion had been funded by cocaine trafficking.
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As America's appetite for coke fades, Guinea Bissau has become a key transit point for Colombia's narco-traffickers with an eye on the growing European market
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BOGOTA  - One of the 12 drug dealers most sought by the United States was captured yesterday, police said. Dagoberto Florez Rios, for whose capture the United States had offered US$5 million, was arrested