links for 2008-03-05

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  A field guide to the leftist militias of Latin America (Slate)
  
  
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  First of crack convicts freed after sentencing reform (CNN)
  
  
  At least four federal inmates convicted on crack cocaine charges were freed Monday, a result of federal efforts to close the gap between sentences doled out for crack and for its purer, powder counterpart.
  
  
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  Traffic stop yields heroin; 1 arrested (Miami Herald)
  
  
  Heroin worth an estimated $30,000 was found in the back of an SUV by a Florida Highway Patrol officer doing a routine traffic stop.
  
  The silver Isuzu Rodeo was passing traffic in the emergency lane of Interestate 95, by the Northwest 135th Street exit,
  
  
  (tags: public)