A Murder Spree in Central America
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As Bush heads to the region, his key allies in Guatemala and El Salvador are reeling from gangland style killings that many believe are related to drug smuggling and corruption
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LA LOMA, Colombia -- In 2001, paramilitary hit men pulled three union leaders off buses in this roasting-hot swath of northeastern Colombia and shot them dead. In a shadowy conflict where gunmen often kill union activists, the slaying generated little attention, even as the dead men's families ac...
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AT least 23 passengers were killed and 16 wounded after gunmen opened fire on a public bus in northern Honduras. The shooting happened in the city of Chamelecon, 125 miles north of the capital Tegucigalpa.
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Paramilitary thugs hauled Rafael Barbosa from his mother's home on a Good Friday, accusing him of making off with bags of cocaine found floating in the Caribbean. Toughs from the same gang "disappeared" his brother Freddy soon after, because he had taken up with one of the gunmen's sisters.
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A cold snap has brought freezing temperatures, unusual snows and heavy rains to Mexico and Central America, and authorities said the weather may be to blame for several deaths.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - A group of U.S. tourists, including a former Marine, killed a Costa Rican mugger by breaking his neck after he pulled a gun on them in a Caribbean port, a local police official said on Thursday.
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Hurricane batters Central America, raising fears of catastrophe in a region with few resources.
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The motive behind the murder of an Italian woman in the Venezuelan islands of Los Roques remains a mystery for authorities investigating the case that has stunned inhabitants of this Caribbean archipelago.
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Six men have been found murdered in  Mexico in two incidents that appear to reflect a recent surge  in violence between rival drug gangs.
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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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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - With time running out, Nazihunters are making a new push to track down aging war criminalsstill living in South America, a region notorious for openingits doors to those responsible for the Holocaust.
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Police in South America&#039;s largest city have been placed on maximum alert following a shootout in which 13 suspected gang members were killed trying to carry out a plan to attack prison guards.
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At least 28 passengers, including six children, were killed when assailants opened fire on a public bus in northern Honduras. The shooting happened Thursday night in the city of Chamelecon, about 200 kilometres north of the capital Tegucigalpa.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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SANTA BARBARA, Venezuela -- A whodunit involving two undercover Colombian soldiers whose bodies were found here in western Venezuela has heightened tensions between the neighboring countries and lifted the lid on the dirty little secrets of their border relations.
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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia -- In a cramped, hospital-white laboratory in this coastal Caribbean city, 200 neatly numbered boxes of human remains lie stacked to the ceiling, waiting for a lone forensic anthropologist to extract the secrets of their violent deaths.
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TEGUCIGALPA  - Honduran police investigated a massacre that left 28 people dead after their bus was strafed by gunfire in what officials suspect was a chilling message from gangs to President Ricardo Maduro and crime-busting politicians.