But that has begun to change during the last year, as a new generation of cocaine smugglers has forced its way to the top.

Pablo Escobar Gaviria, king of the cocaine smugglers, died a folk hero's death in 1993.

American officials as recently as last month have praised General Avril for his efforts against cocaine smugglers.

It is their job to impersonate not cocaine smugglers, but teenage girls - and, sometimes, boys - to serve as their invisible protectors.

The two groups have often fought each other for "taxes" from cocaine smugglers in the Huallaga.

He tries to recruit some peasants only to be mistaken for a cocaine smuggler.

Honduras is used by cocaine smugglers as a transiting point between Colombia and the US.

Three cocaine smugglers have died in just over a month after swallowing their contraband to beat searches.

Cuba would never be anything if it remained a long, narrow sugarcane field and way point for cocaine smugglers.

When it became obvious that was the whole answer, the correspondent persisted, "Are you a cocaine smuggler?"