Mexico Captures 'Legend of Drug Trafficking' to U.S.
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Mexico has captured a drug lord  accused of handling half of the illegal drugs smuggled across  the border into the United States and who had a $2 million  price tag on his head, the government said on Monday.
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Mexico said on Wednesday it will investigate whether its federal agents protected a Chinese-Mexican businessman tied to the largest seizure of drug cash in world history, while the businessman's lawyers told a Washington news conference they fear for their client's life if he is returned to Mexico.
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The U.S. ambassador formally returned a 300-year-old wooden altarpiece to Mexico on Tuesday that thieves had tried to sell in the United States.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 10 -- A reputed cocaine kingpin who is among the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives was captured Monday in an army operation that is being hailed by government officials as a major blow against drug trafficking in this Andean country.
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Mexican authorities said Monday that Gilberto Higuera Guerrero was arrested early Sunday in the northern border city of Mexicali. He is among Mexico&#39;s most wanted drug traffickers.
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Colombian drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela was flown to the United States early Saturday aboard a U.S. government plane, becoming the most powerful Colombian trafficker ever extradited to face U.S. justice.
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One of the world's most notorious drug traffickers, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, is being extradited to the US.
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U.S. and Mexican law enforcement agents executing simultaneous raids discovered a recently completed smuggling tunnel linking the two countries, officials said Friday.
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Mexico's incoming president, Felipe   Calderon, will use extradition to the United States as a major   weapon in the war on rampant drug smuggling gangs, a senior   aide said on Tuesday.
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Drug battles and 27 abductions of Americans trigger Mexico advisory.
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Gilberto Higuera Guerrero, said to be behind half the cocaine smuggled into the US from Mexico, is arrested.
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In stories Jan. 13, 14 and 18 about Mexican drug cases, The Associated Press erroneously reported the reward offered by U.S. authorities for alleged Mexican drug lord Ismael Zambada, alias "El Mayo." The amount is &#36;5 million, not &#36;2 million.
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BOGOTA -- Police captured a suspected leader of the Norte del Valle drug cartel yesterday, the latest arrest in a US-backed effort to dismantle a gang accused of trafficking half of all cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s. Dagoberto Florez was on a list of most wanted alleged cocaine kingpins sought by US authorities under a court ...
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Mexico extradited drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix to the United States on Saturday, making him the first major Mexican drug lord to be sent north to face drug charges.
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Mexico extradited a member of the   infamous Arellano Felix drug-smuggling family to the United   States on Saturday where he has been wanted since the 1980s on   drug charges, a source in the prosecutor general's office said.
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The Mexican government said Sunday it received a letter from a drug suspect alleging that millions of dollars seized at his house in March &#151; the largest drug-related cash seizure in history &#151; were in fact illegal ruling-party campaign funds.
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The United States has taken custody of arguably the most important drug kingpin ever to head to a U.S. prison, one of two brothers who founded Colombia's notorious Cali drug cartel.