Killing of drug police shakes Colombians
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On a dirt road dotted with country homes near the western city of Cali, three trucks carrying an elite squad of anti-narcotics police pulled up to the gates of a psychiatric center for a planned raid about an hour before dusk.
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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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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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Suspected Marxist rebels gunned down a state attorney in southern Colombia who had been prosecuting captured guerrilla commanders, police said Saturday.
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A riot at a Guatemala jail ends after four police held there over the murder of three politicians are shot dead.
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Miguel Arroyave, chief of a faction of the paramilitary Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC),has been killed in an ambush in the country&#39;s central-south province of Meta, authorities said Monday.
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Colombian police say they have discovered the body of a man they believe was a top leader of the country&#39;s outlawed right-wing paramilitary group who was engaged in peace talks with the government.
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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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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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Police fired on coca growers protesting government eradication of their cocaine producing crop Tuesday, killing two of the farmers after they attacked a police station near the southern border with Bolivia, authorities said.
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Rebels killed a mayor and a former town council member after seizing them at a roadblock in eastern Colombia as they headed to a meeting on how to confront violence in the area, authorities said Saturday.
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A deadly blast in Mexico City raises fears that Mexican drug cartels are adopting the tactics of their Colombian allies
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Nine are shot dead in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown, as police battle drugs gangs and militia groups.
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The boss of Colombia's biggest remaining cocaine cartel was shot dead in neighboring Venezuela in an apparent settling of scores among drug gangs, authorities said on Friday.
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Twelve people, including a young boy,  are killed as Brazilian police mount an anti-drugs raid on a  Rio slum.
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FALLUJA - Gunmen captured 21 Iraqi policemen and shot them in cold blood today, a day after attacks on security forces that killed 34 people, police said.
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Brazilian police killed 13 suspected gangsters during five hours of gunbattles in a Rio de Janeiro slum on Wednesday in a show of force before next month's Pan American Games, a security official said.