Guatemala seizes control of jail
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Guatemalan security forces storm a jail that has been under prisoner control for 10 years, killing seven inmates.
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The Colombian state finally wins control of the estate of the late Medellin drugs baron, Pablo Escobar.
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Suspected Muslim rebels storm a jail in the southern Philippines, freeing at least 46 inmates, officials say.
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Inmates in a Moscow pre-trial detention  center on Monday seized as many as 15 hostages, including a  chief warden and his deputy, and Interfax news agency reported  a blast and automatic gunfire at the prison.
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Four Guatemalan policemen are held over the murders of three Salvadorean politicians in Guatemala City.
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Iraq's government has formally taken over the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, a government spokesman said Saturday.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexican federal officials said yesterday that an alleged drug trafficker linked to the country's largest seizure of drug cash has been arrested in Maryland.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's government has formally taken over Abu Ghraib, where inmate abuses by US soldiers caused a scandal, and all inmates have been transferred to another facility, officials said Saturday.
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Mexican troops arrested a leading member of one of the country's two main drug gangs and seized nearly a million dollars in cash, a victory in President Felipe Calderon's fight against traffickers.
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An angry mob took 11 police officers hostage in Guatemala on Wednesday when a northern jungle town exploded in violence amid rumors of baby trafficking rings, police and army officials said.
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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia - Armed with clubs and waving provincial flags, thousands of residents of Bolivia's wealthiest province seized control of the country's busiest airport yesterday from troops sent in by President Evo Morales.
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Guatemala on Monday swears in Alvaro Colom, its first leftist president in more than 50 years.
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More than 150 prisoners escaped from a state penitentiary in Cancun early Friday after hundreds of inmates overpowered guards with knives and bats. Police quickly recaptured about half the men.
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Guatemala's president says organised crime gangs ordered the murder of four policemen  held in a top security jail.
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Gunmen stormed a Guatemalan prison and shot to death four jailed police officers in a mafia hit aimed at stopping investigators from finding out who ordered the slayings of three politicians from neighboring El Salvador, Guatemala's leader said Monday.
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Guatemalan prosecutors are  investigating claims that riot police summarily executed dozens  of peasant squatters in a violent eviction on a ranch this  week, the government said on Wednesday.
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Soldiers take control of Mexico's highest-security jail, amid fears drug gangs are planning a breakout.