U.S. vows to help Latin America fight drug gangs
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CUERNAVACA, Mexico  - The United States will stand by Latin American governments in their battle against powerful drug cartels, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales vowed on Friday.
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President Bush is preparing to finish an agreement with Brazil to promote the production and use of ethanol throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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MEXICO CITY, Oct. 22 -- President Bush announced Monday in Washington that he will ask Congress to approve a $500 million package to help Mexico fight drug cartels, the largest international anti-drug effort by the United States in nearly a decade.
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When U.S. security chiefs look  south at Latin America, they see porous borders and an ugly mix  of drug traffickers and Marxist rebel groups who they fear  could cut a deal with Islamic radicals like al Qaeda.
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Mexico warned the United States  not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday in a fight over  drug wars on their sensitive border where Washington seeks  close cooperation against terror.
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President Bush heaped praise Monday on Colombia&#39;s government for battling drug gangs and corruption and said he will ask Congress to renew a US aid package next year.
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The United States and Mexico sought to defuse their spat over a U.S. alert about drug-gang violence along the border, issuing a joint statement Saturday in which Washington said its announcement was not meant to keep Americans from traveling south of the border.
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U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza told Mexican leaders Wednesday he is concerned that growing drug-related violence and kidnappings on the border between the two countries will have a "chilling" effect on trade and tourism.
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CARTAGENA, Colombia -- Under a security web of warplanes, battleships, and 15,000 troops, President Bush praised Colombia's battle against drugs and Marxist guerrillas yesterday and pledged to keep US aid flowing so that &quot;this courageous nation can win its war against narcoterrorists.&quot;
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US President George W. Bush has vowed to seek more funding for a sweeping plan to battle cocaine production and defeat heavily armed rebels in Colombia.
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President Felipe Calderon pledged "a hard and difficult battle" against gangs Wednesday, a day after gunmen wounded the top security official in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco and killed his driver.
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President Alvaro Uribe flew to Washington on Wednesday hoping to revive Colombia's trade accord with the U.S., but he could also face a move in Congress to slash anti-drug aid for the world's largest producer of cocaine.
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MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calder&#xF3;n pledged "a hard and difficult battle" against gangs yesterday, a day after gunmen wounded the top security official in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco and killed his driver.
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Facing skeptics in the new Democratic-led U.S. Congress, President Alvaro Uribe pleaded with the American public on Thursday to continue a $700 million annual aid package that he credits for making his violence-tortured nation more peaceful and less corrupt.
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President Bush pledged new aid on Monday for Colombia in a show of solidarity for a key ally, President Alvaro Uribe, in his campaign against Marxist guerrillas and drug trafficking.
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Mexico sought to play down a U.S.  travel alert for Americans visiting the Mexican side of the  border and said any violence was contained to drugs gangs   and  that authorities were fighting to curb it.
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The ferocious rate of killings in Mexico's drug war is unlikely to slow despite President Felipe Calderon's military assault on the cartels, a senior U.S. anti-drug official said on Monday.