Drug traffickers eye Guatemala elections
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JUTIAPA, Guatemala  - In towns along Guatemala's drug corridor between El Salvador and Mexico, drug traffickers flush with money see this year's elections as a new way to extend their power.
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Guatemala's new president, Alvaro Colom, pledged on Monday to fight violence and drug trafficking as he took power in a country racked by crime.
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A nationwide hunt is under way to try to find  three Irishmen convicted of training Marxist rebels in Colombia.
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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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Critics accuse Guyana's government of turning a blind eye to the cocaine flowing through this South American nation to the United States and Europe. But those allegations seemed unlikely to hurt President Bharrat Jagdeo's chances for re-election Monday.
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President Bush on Monday will promote free trade in Central America and the need for greater security against an upsurge in political and drug violence in a visit to Guatemala.
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Guatemala's Maya Indian Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu said on Wednesday she may run for president this year in a bid to become the second indigenous head of state in Latin America.
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Jamaicans are due to vote in a general election which is expected to be the closest contest for years.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- New Afghan President Hamid Karzai is preparing to meet tribal leaders in a bid to step up the fight against the country&#39;s drug trade.
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Weeks ahead of presidential elections, black market weapons sales are soaring as factions prepare for street battles.
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The Bush administration's war on drugs stretches deep into Asia and Latin America, yet one of its most crucial campaigns &#151; in the eyes of drug czar John Walters &#151; is being waged this fall among voters in Oregon, Alaska and Montana.
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Security, immigration and trade are on the agenda as George Bush visits Guatemala as part of his Latin America tour.
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A hard-line former general who wants an army crackdown on rampant crime led Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday, but he lacked enough support to avoid a November 4 runoff, results showed.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan leaders are considering offering amnesty to drug smugglers who get out of the country's booming narcotics industry and invest their profits in national reconstruction, senior officials said.
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GUATEMALA CITY -- Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu, who is a Maya Indian, said yesterday she may run for president this year in a bid to become the second indigenous head of state in Latin America. Menchu, a defender of Maya Indian victims of Guatemala's bloody 1960-96 civil war, said several political parties had asked her to run as president or ...
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CULIACAN, Mexico  - From the lush mountain valleys of Peru to America's toughest streets, ruthless Mexican gangs are grabbing control of the multi-billion dollar cocaine and crystal meth smuggling trade.
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Traffickers prefer Guatemala, where the radar is spotty and the government is largely unable to stop the flights carrying U.S. bound drugs.