Campaigning Mexican anti-drug journalist dies
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Respected Mexican journalist  Jesus Blancornelas, often threatened and once shot for  campaigning against violent drug traffickers on the U.S.  border, died of a long-term illness on Thursday aged 70.
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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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A former CIA operative who became an outspoken critic of the agency has died in Cuba aged 72.
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Mercedes Quesada de Fox, the mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox, died Thursday, three days before elections to replace her son, the president&#039;s office said. She was 86.
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A man attending this year's Glastonbury festival has died following a suspected drugs overdose, police said this morning.
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Osvaldo Romo, a security agent who became a symbol of torture and repression under Gen. Augusto Pinochet's former military dictatorship, died in prison Wednesday, authorities said. He was 70.
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Philip Agee, a former CIA agent who exposed its undercover operations and dozens of its spies in Latin America in a 1975 book, has died in Havana, Cuba's Communist Party newspaper Granma said on Wednesday.
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A veteran Russian journalist and author who made her name as a searing critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya, was found dead on Saturday.
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Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites, who broke with the leftist Sandinista party to run against its leader Daniel Ortega, died of a heart attack Sunday, a close political ally said. He was 67.
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One-time drug warlord Khun Sa, variously described as among the world's most wanted men and as a great liberation fighter, has died, an associate and a Burma official said Tuesday. He was 74
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Rock-and-roll pioneer Ike Turner, who was found dead last month, died of an accidental cocaine overdose, the San Diego County medical examiner said on Wednesday.
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent trying to stop a suspected drug smuggler was struck and killed by the suspect's car in southern California on Saturday, border police said.
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Two gunmen killed a satirical Honduran broadcaster on Thursday as he left a radio station that is a fierce critic of President Manual Zelaya's government.
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A journalist who won national  attention with a series of later-discredited articles linking  the CIA with the spread of crack cocaine in Los Angeles has  died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Los  Angeles Times reported on Sunday.
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More than 200 Mexican journalists  sent an urgent letter to President Vicente Fox on Monday  demanding better security after three journalists were murdered  this year, the latest one last week.
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MEXICO CITY, May 23 -- A popular Haitian actor and radio talk show host was found shot to death Wednesday in Port-au-Prince, the second killing of a Haitian radio journalist in the past week.
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A cousin of Mexico's first lady was found dead of gunshot wounds just outside Mexico City, authorities said Wednesday.