Colombia chases trafficker assets
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The Colombian government is pursuing a relentless campaign to seize drug traffickers' assets.
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LISBON, Feb 1  (IPS) - Guinea-Bissau is an ideal African springboard for  Latin American mafias to smuggle large quantities of cocaine into  the wealthy European Union market.
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Colombian police arrest a Guatemalan suspected drug baron who has been on the run for two years.
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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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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The former boss of the Cali  drug cartel, who once controlled most of the world's cocaine  trade, was sent to the United States on Friday to face  trafficking and money laundering charges.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President Alvaro   Uribe's U.S.-backed plan to disband right-wing militias has   been hit by charges he is too easy on paramilitaries and that   drug smugglers are posing as fighters to win short jail terms.
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A Colombian arms broker was charged with trying to buy &#36;4 million in grenade launchers, machine guns, other high-powered weapons and munitions for a leftist rebel group and promising 2 tons of cocaine as partial payment.
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MEDELLIN, Colombia (Ticker) - Police have detained four suspects following the armed robbery attempt that has left former Once Caldas coach Luis Fernando Montoya in a serious condition.
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Colombia's state oil company goes searching for investors -- in supermarkets, gyms and big-box stores
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - A Colombian court approved theextradition to the United States of one of the South Americannation's most notorious paramilitary leaders on drug smugglingcharges.
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Colombian police seize millions in fake euros and dollars in an international operation.
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As America's appetite for coke fades, Guinea Bissau has become a key transit point for Colombia's narcotraffickers with an eye on the growing European market
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A new wave of drug kingpins is emerging in Colombia &#151; traffickers who operate from the shadows, seeking only profits and avoiding the excesses of previous generations of drug lords, a top intelligence official said.
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia will require banksand money changers to report all international transfers ofmore than $200 starting next year to help combat drug moneylaundering and "narco terrorists" and control the strength ofthe peso.
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Colombian police have launched an international search for three Irishmen who were convicted of training Marxist rebels in the South American country, it was reported today.
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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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Police arrested a man near the Spanish border with more than &#36;19 million worth of cocaine stashed in his camping trailer, one of France's biggest roadside drug busts in years, the Finance Ministry said Friday.