Crips, Bloods and a Town in the Crossfire
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Community leaders admit that Irvington, N.J., is not dealing with a typical gang situation--it is dealing with groups of youths who operate outside that structure.
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Warring drug cartels have brought a surge in gruesome violence to this Mexican resort town.
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Gunfire and gang violence are alarming people in this farm town where the usual background noise is the reassuring chug of field machinery.
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During a strike, itâs enemies by day and friends by night.
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Forces of war, nature, economic crisis and regional tension converge with a vengeance on populace.
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'Blood Diamond' tries to mix African politics and action.
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The death of Tarika Wilson during a drug raid has left tensions here simmering between minorities and police.
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In this gritty border town known as a haven for drug smugglers, arms dealers and counterfeiters, stacks of money change hands in the open on every corner and thousands of people each day stream across Friendship Bridge into Ciudad del Este. They carry packages on their backs, in wheelbarrows or on carts, and border police stop few.
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As the country prepares for local elections on Sunday, many are finding that the murder and intimidation that once defined politics here are diminishing.
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By Joe Light, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville  Feb. 3--In 1901, as a mob fled a fire that would destroy most of  Jacksonville, a few looked west, toward property that would become a motel  more than half a century later, and worried.
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Over the last decade gangs have spread across Central America, Mexico and the U.S., setting off a catastrophic crime wave.
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Emerging rival mafia clans are locked in a murderous power struggle for control of the drugs market.
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A major gunfight has sparked rage and debate over Blackwater's role.
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Behind the glitzy playgrounds of Cancun is a growing drug war, fueled by widespread police corruption, the partial disruption of once-popular trafficking routes through Haiti and a sudden turf battle between two of the country's main drug gangs.
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One small town provides a snapshot of an electorate riven by tribal infighting
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Millions of Britons have a guilty secret. They are spending their spare hours immersed in an underground world of LA gangs and gun-ridden ghettos.
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Crosses, burned vehicles and blown-up bridges mark the narrow road that runs from a provincial capital to this village near the Venezuelan border - the scars of a protracted and bitter battle between a right-wing paramilitary group and Marxist rebels for control of the region's cocaine industry.