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Fujimori now faces extradition to Peru
Nov 7 2005 4:09PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was arrested Monday on charges involving corruption and massacres at home as he tried to return to Peru to run for re-election after five years in exile in Japan.
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Drug runners use PR as stepping stone
Nov 7 2005 2:49PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The cargo ship had just arrived from South America when U.S. federal agents boarded with sniffer dogs, zeroed in on a 20-foot-long steel oxygen tank and hauled it away. An X-ray showed it contained nearly two tons of cocaine.
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Cocaine smugglers using high-tech boats
Nov 7 2005 12:14PM (CT)
TUMACO, Colombia (AP) - Slicing through slate-gray waters along the shores of Colombia, a Coast Guard vessel slips into a mangrove-fringed inlet, on the hunt for speedboats loaded with two or three tons of cocaine and ready to tear full-tilt to coastlines hundreds of miles away.
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Guatemala is key in drug smugglers' rout
Nov 7 2005 12:14PM (CT)
OCOS, Guatemala (AP) - The dark, volcanic-sand beaches of this town just south of the Mexican border are mostly empty, populated by plump black pigs and an occasional surfer. It's the perfect spot for cocaine runners.
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U.S. drug agents go after tons of cash
Nov 7 2005 12:14PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - American agents are fighting drug traffickers by following the money _ hundreds of tons of cash every year.
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Mexican drug lords increasingly powerful
Nov 7 2005 12:14PM (CT)
MIGUEL ALEMAN, Mexico (AP) - Hit men, pistols tucked in their pants and walkie-talkies strapped to their belts, move freely in this city of sorghum farmers and cattle ranchers, dropping off their ostrich-skin boots with shoeshine boys in the city's plaza and stopping at local bars for a beer.
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African immigrants in Spain scraping by
Nov 7 2005 4:50AM (CT)
MADRID, Spain (AP) - The luckier ones sleep in crowded apartments or shelters and do construction work, dodging inspectors or using a friend's papers. The less fortunate live in parks and hand out fliers, toiling for a pittance.
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