In recent years, dozens of Colombian journalists have been murdered and hundreds more kidnapped, threatened or forced into exile.

Nor can much reliable information be expected from Colombian journalists.

The interviewers are well-known Colombian journalists from radio, television, and print media.

And Colombian journalists described how their colleagues had been assaulted.

"This is not a war against cocaine," said one Colombian journalist.

He owns everything," said a Colombian journalist, "and everybody wants to be his friend.

In the last five years, according to conservative estimates, more than two dozen Colombian journalists have been killed in connection with their work.

But many Colombian journalists fear that the drug cartels may get their way in the long run.

Colombian journalists may have to find a stand-in speaker.

Most of the killings of 22 Colombian journalists in the last two years were carried out by drug enforcers.