Traffickers Infiltrate Military in Colombia
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- An investigation by the Colombian Defense Ministry has found that drug traffickers and rebels from the country's largest guerrilla group infiltrated the U.S.-backed military here, paying high-ranking officers for classified information to help elude capture and continue smuggl...
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Escorted by heavily armed soldiers and tanks, Colombia's government on Friday transferred 59 paramilitary warlords who demobilized under a peace deal to a maximum-security prison, citing fears of an escape plot by the men.
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BOGOTA - Soldiers swarmed a farm yesterday and captured one of the world's most wanted drug traffickers, who was hiding in bushes in his underwear. Colombian officials called it their biggest drug war victory since the 1993 slaying of Medell&#xED;n cartel leader Pablo Escobar.
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Authorities suspect a new threat is lurking in the mountains and jungles of Colombia: Not a new rebel cadre, but altered coca plants that are bigger, faster-growing and produce more of the compound that gives cocaine its kick.
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Seven helicopter gunships skirted the steep mountainsides, then quickly descended on a cocaine lab, marked by a smoke grenade thrown by one of the raiders. As the heavily armed anti-narcotics police jumped from the hovering craft, accompanied by an informant wearing a ski mask, peasants who worked the coca fields and in the complex scampered away.
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COLOMBIAN troops are searching for at least seven tourists abducted by guerrillas while enjoying a Christmas break. Army sources said Farc rebels swept into a spa near San Rafael, herding people into vehicles.
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The Colombian government is pursuing a relentless campaign to seize drug traffickers' assets.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A commander of Colombia'slargest rebel army was handed over to U.S. authorities at aBogota airport for extradition to the United States Friday oncocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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Venezuela blamed drug-trafficking paramilitary fighters Saturday for a jungle ambush which killed six Venezuelan soldiers and an oil engineer near the border with Colombia.
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A joint French, American and British anti-narcotics operation intercepted four smugglers with 880 pounds of cocaine off the coast of Colombia this week, France's Defense Ministry said Friday.
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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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One of Colombia's biggest drug traffickers, in an interview broadcast Monday, claimed credit for the 1993 killing of rival drug lord Pablo Escobar, saying he supplied police with a tracking device that allowed them to hunt down the Medellin drug cartel leader.
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Guatemala knows it is losing the battle against drug trafficking &#151; its police, military and justice system are beholden to traffickers who use the country as a way station for Colombian drug shipments to the U.S.
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EL MIRADOR, Colombia -- The latest shift in Colombia's war on drugs is evident on a green hilltop in this town, as weather-beaten men in gray jumpsuits -- government-paid eradicators -- use hoes and muscle to rip out bushes of coca. Policemen carrying M-16 assault rifles and land-mine detectors...
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Four active-duty U.S. soldiers -- three of them elite Army Rangers -- have been arrested and charged with planning to rob drug traffickers.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A commander of Colombia's  largest rebel army was handed over to U.S. authorities at a  Bogota airport for extradition to the United States Friday on  cocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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More than three dozen people have been arrested in connection with a ring suspected of smuggling $35 million in Colombian heroin to New York and New Jersey through Mexico.