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    FILE - This June 18, 2002, file photo shows Italy's Angelo Di Livio argues with referee Byron Moreno, left, after he showed a red card to Francesco Totti, as Christian Vieri, rear right, looks on during a game against South Korea at the 2002 World Cup in Daejeon, South Korea . Moreno of Ecuador was caught at Kennedy airport with bags of the drug taped to his body. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)


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    (Photo: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration) A submarine, seized on July 2 in a shallow river inlet close to the Ecuador-Colombia border, was thought to be intended for smugglers to transport tons of cocaine.


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    Colombians talk with a representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (center) in Barranca, Ecuador, in August 2008. An estimated 150,000 Colombian refugees live in Ecuador, according to the United Nations. (Associated Press)


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    The bodies of the 58 male and 14 female massacre victims are seen inside the abandoned warehouse where they were found in San Fernando in eastern Mexico. They were migrants from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras trying to get to the United States. (Associated Press)


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    A navy officer guards a street where a funeral home is holding the bodies of 72 men and women that were purportedly killed by the Zetas drug gang are in San Fernando, just 100 miles from the the Mexican border with the U.S. near the city of Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday Aug. 26, 2010. A wounded migrant who escaped the Zetas gang stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to the scene were migrants from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras were executed. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)


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    Ecuadorean soldiers patrol the town of Puerto Nuevo in Ecuador, made up primarily of Colombian refugees. Officials say the town is a haven for guerrillas fighting across the border in Colombia's civil war. (Kelly Hearn)


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    An unchecked boat crosses the San Miguel River to Colombia. Residents of river towns in Ecuador are complaining about the Colombian guerrilla fighters who come to seek supplies, prostitutes and a respite from the fighting across the river. (Kelly Hearn)


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    A young boy stands in a rainstorm in the refugee village of Providencia on Ecuador's San Miguel River. Residents of Providencia say Ecuadorean soldiers came to their homes, asking questions, and later were targeted as Colombian guerrilla collaborators. (Kelly Hearn)


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    **FILE** Colombian refugees wait for aid in the tiny border town of Puerto Nuevo, Ecuador, after fleeing their country to escape a drug-fueled civil war. (Kelly Hearn/The Washington Times)


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