BOGOTA - Colombian authorities have captured two leaders of a 20-ton-per-year cocaine operation that sent drug-laden submarines to the world's top drug consumer, the United States, local police said on Tuesday.
Colombia, the world's No. 1 cocaine producer, has been wracked for decades by violence that made large swaths of the Andean nation off limits as drug gangs, leftist rebels and right-wing paramilitaries fought for control of a business measured in billions of dollars.
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