1.   Colombian drug barons accumulate such vast resources that they can acquire a Soviet submarine to ship cocaine to the United States.

2.   In addition, drug traffickers are increasingly using regular freight cargo containers to ship cocaine and other drugs.

3.   It is cheaper and easier to ship pure cocaine directly to market than it is to transport more bulky cocaine paste to an intermediary, analysts say.

4.   They said one method was to ship cocaine inside gasoline trucks to a gas station on the outskirts of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas.