1.   And despite all the publicity and pressure, Valle said that Garcia remains one of the biggest Mexican narcos moving Colombian cocaine to the United States.

2.   A halt in aid, which Clinton administration officials say is vital to slowing the flow of Colombian cocaine to the United States, is considered highly unlikely.

3.   Colombian cocaine producers had already made Mexico their main route to the thriving American market.

4.   Colombian cocaine, which has a bigger market in the United States, is more often shipped by the thousands of pounds in air and sea containers.

5.   Gutierrez also has named three narcotics cartels operating in Matamoros, Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana as the largest suppliers of marijuana and Colombian cocaine to the United States.

6.   He is believed to have smuggled hundreds of tons of Colombian cocaine into the United States, operating primarily out of Houston and New York.

7.   He pioneered a direct Mexican role in the distribution of Colombian cocaine within the United States, operating in markets from Houston to New York.

8.   If the unusual smuggling case goes to trial, testimony will be about Mexican tiger beetles, not Colombian cocaine.

9.   In January, Clarkston met with the undercover agents who introduced a U.S. Customs agent as an accountant for a Colombian cocaine trafficking organization.

10.   Mexican traffickers were by then taking as much as half of the Colombian cocaine they moved into the United States as payment for their services.