Mexico Demotes Senior Police Officials in Graft Crackdown
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MEXICO CITY, June 25 -- The heads of federal police agencies in all 32 Mexican states and 250 other high-ranking officers were demoted Monday in one of the broadest corruption crackdowns in this country's recent history.
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The Mexican authorities on Monday announced the arrest of Gilberto Higuera Guerrero, who is accused of being a leader of a crime organization responsible for nearly
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Guatemala's president on Tuesday ordered the national police to clean out corrupt officers and upgrade training after six members of the force were accused of killing three Central American Parliament members.
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Dozens of senior police officers in Rio de Janeiro resigned on Wednesday to protest the dismissal of a commander, throwing the Brazilian city's security forces into crisis as its famed Carnival celebrations got under way.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox fired  the capital city's police chief on Monday after a mob beat and  burned to death two officers and critically injured a third  last month.
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Mexican police arrested dozens of people in a raid on a town where a frenzied mob beat and burned two federal police officers to death in an attack that shocked even this crime-hardened nation.
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Less than a week after his inauguration, President Leonel Fernandez has given top posts to four former officials charged with involvement in the disappearance of millions of dollars in public funds in the late 1990s.
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The Communist Party secretary of   Shanghai has been dismissed for corruption, state media   announced on Monday, the highest official to be felled by a   graft probe since Hu Jintao became national party boss in 2002.
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Hundreds of federal police officers packed up their tents Saturday and marched out of this troubled Mexican city's central square, ending their seven-week occupation to put down a lengthy protest by leftists that had left nine people dead.
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Mexican police said Saturday they had broken up a vote-buying scheme in Chiapas on the eve of state elections, which will be closely watched in a country already straining under the turmoil of a disputed presidential election last month.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, an official said on Monday, ending a controversial tenure as chief law enforcement officer that blemished the administration of President George W. Bush.
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One policeman in mainly Muslim Malaysia has been sacked and another demoted -- both for taking a second wife.
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A top Palestinian official said yesterday that he would dismantle an elite security unit accused of abuse and corruption in a first step toward overhauling the tangled network of Palestinian security forces.
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Heavily armed Mexican police, backed by helicopters, locked down the capital's most notorious neighborhood on Tuesday as part of the latest offensive against rampant drug trafficking.
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President Tabare Vazquez ousted his ministers of defense, foreign affairs and industry on Monday, saying he was seeking a better team for his final two years in office.
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OAXACA, Mexico  - Federal riot police ended their weeks-long occupation of the center of the Mexican tourist city Oaxaca on Saturday, having weakened a protest movement trying to oust a state governor.
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Embattled Alberto Gonzales is the latest in a series of top-level departures from the Bush administration.