31.   He was whisked to Miami, tried and imprisoned for aiding Colombian drug traffickers.

32.   Hinted that Colombian drug lords were involved.

33.   In one case, Russian organized crime figures attempted to sell a submarine to Colombian drug cartel figures to help them smuggle drugs.

34.   In photographs circulated by U.S. and Colombian drug authorities, Rodriguez Orejuela had appeared in suit and tie, clean shaven, his thick dark hair brushed straight back.

35.   In recent years, the cocaine and heroin trades have been so profitable that Colombian drug cartels have earned more dollars than they know what to do with.

36.   In the last decade, he said, Colombian drug lords, long major cocaine exporters, realized they could also grow opium in the Colombian climate.

37.   Its natural resources diminished, its economy bankrupt, its politics clouded and its people impoverished, Haiti has become an easy conduit for the Colombian drug trade.

38.   Mr. Clinton has frozen U.S. assets of a big Colombian drug cartel.

39.   Much of the drugs cultivated in Venezuela are planted and harvested by Colombian drug cartels, or Colombian guerrillas, Tablante said.

40.   Now, in what authorities describe as a marriage of convenience, Mexican and Colombian drug kingpins have joined forces to push pure heroin into the United States.