Mexican Drug Cartel Lawyer Murdered in Tijuana
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Police on Wednesday recovered  the strangled body of a lawyer working for one of Mexico's most  powerful drugs gangs -- the third lawyer for the cartel to be  murdered in recent years.
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Mexican authorities said Wednesday they had arrested a man in northern Mexico in the weekend killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar.
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Suspected drug gangsters murdered eight people execution-style in and around the Caribbean beach town of Cancun this week as a wave of brutal killings hit Mexico.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20 -- Federal law enforcement officials  have arrested an assistant state prosecutor suspected of involvement in the murder of a state political party leader, a federal drug investigator and two pilots in the violence-torn border state of Durango.
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent trying to stop a suspected drug smuggler was struck and killed by the suspect's car in southern California on Saturday, border police said.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Mexico sent hundreds of police reinforcements to the border city of Tijuana on Tuesday following a rash of organized crime killings and as Mexican media said two cops were shot dead in another northern town.
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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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Assailants shot dead an Indian activist in Mexico's conflict-ridden state of Oaxaca, police said Saturday. It was not clear if the killing was related to months of political violence in which at least nine other people have died.
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A Honduran diplomat was killed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when the car she was riding in was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer driven by an illegal immigrant, state police said.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Mexican troops and police fought a fierce battle with suspected drug hitmen armed with grenades in a town near the U.S. border on Monday, and one police officer was killed, witnesses and Mexican media said.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A Venezuelan prosecutor  probing a 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez was killed by  a car bomb that the government blamed Friday on radical  opponents it said were training in the United States.
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The Colombian defence minister announces the killing of one of the leaders of the left-wing Farc guerrilla group.
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Assailants shot dead four police officers in the western Mexican city of Aguascalientes on Thursday, the latest in a wave of slayings of law enforcement officers across Mexico.
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The Coast Guard caught Mexican drug lord Francisco Javier Arellano Felix deep-sea fishing off Mexico, decapitating a murderous cartel that dug smuggling tunnels under the U.S. border, officials said Wednesday.
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Six guards were found murdered outside a high-security prison on Mexico's border with Texas on Thursday, in the latest bloody episode in weeks of prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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A leading Venezuelan prosecutor investigating the 2002 coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez has been killed in a car bomb attack in Caracas, raising fears of renewed unrest in the country.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Hit men from Mexico's drug gangs are breaking traditional codes of honor by killing children in a chilling new chapter of a narcotics war that President Felipe Calderon is struggling to control.