Colombia wins drug lord's house
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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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Colombia's Congress on Tuesday approved a bill allowing Alvaro Uribe, one of few conservative South American presidents with strong ties to Washington, to run for an unprecedented second term.
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TWO of Colombiaâs most powerful drug barons watched impotently from their prison cells yesterday as the state seized their fortune, estimated at more than Â£120 million.
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BOGOTA -- One of Colombia's biggest drug traffickers, in an interview broadcast yesterday, 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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Colombia's top drug lord, who earned the title "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of tonnes of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday, the country's biggest narcotics arrest in a decade.
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The Colombian police captured on Tuesday an important member of the North Cauca Valley, the largestdrug-trafficking ring in the 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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Colombia's Congress gave final approval to a bill to allow President Alvaro Uribe to run for re-election, a move aimed at giving the hard-line leader more time to fight a leftist insurgency and drug trafficking.
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In what the government called "the final, fatal blow" to the world's biggest cocaine supplier, two Colombian brothers who helped found the infamous Cali cartel pleaded guilty Tuesday to drug trafficking, agreed to forfeit billions in tainted assets, and received what could amount to a life sentence.
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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, a victory in President Felipe Calderon's fight against traffickers.
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Colombia's top drugs lord, known as the "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of metric tons of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday in the country's biggest narcotics arrest in years.
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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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Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera was convicted yesterday in federal court of helping hold three Americans hostage for years in jungle prison camps. He is the only person ever found responsible for their capture.
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President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela pardons and frees 27 Colombians convicted for plotting against him.
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Believing that Colombia's violence had ebbed, Giovanni Colmenares and his family moved from the United States back to Colombia last year, opened a bar in Bogota and were looking to buy an apartment. But then one day assailants hustled him into a car and put a gun to his head.
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Jair Diaz is one of the brave ones. After leftist rebels gunned down two city councilmen, most other politicians fled this town in the shadow of Colombia's rebel-controlled southern jungles.
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Now that America's most-wanted cocaine trafficker is about to be extradited to the U.S., his rivals and lieutenants are struggling for command of Colombia's dominant cartel, authorities say. But whoever wins will inherit a criminal organization tottering on the edge of extinction.