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Colombia plunged into political uncertainty Friday as opponents of President Alvaro Uribe accused him of acting like a ''dictator'' because he called for new elections
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President Hugo Chavez's Venezuela has become the key trafficking route for most of the cocaine sold on Britain's streets, anti-drugs officials believe
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MEXICO CITY — With a deadly drug war spreading around the country, beleaguered Mexican officials on Friday welcomed $400 million in anti-narcotics assistance in a bill that was given final Congressional approval in Washington on Thursday night.
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A Mexican citizen who is a distant relative of a prominent congressman from Texas was kidnapped last week in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and then released within three days after the victim’s immediate family paid ransom of $32,000.
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The debacle in Santiago in Sinaloa state, a stronghold of drug traffickers, is one of a series of blunders by Mexican soldiers waging a bloody campaign against narcotics cartels
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CARACAS, VENEZUELA — Hundreds of Venezuelan military officers are no longer assigned duties and have been relegated to their homes, quietly pushed aside for their dissent under President Hugo Chavez, according to former military commanders and a watchd
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GUATEMALA CITY --
A helicopter crash killed Guatemala's interior minister and three other people on Friday.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador --
Leaders from Central America and the Dominican Republic have denounced new European Union rules for expelling illegal immigrants, joining a rising chorus of Latin American countries to oppose the regulations.
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BEJUCOS, Mexico — In this remote village in the mountains of Central Mexico, where most everyone lives off the money sent home from relatives working in Austin, Texas, the value of the U.S. dollar has become a source of angst.
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MEXICO CITY --
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday welcomed U.S. congressional approval of a $400 million anti-drug aid package that drops restrictive conditions he had opposed.