According to DEA reports cartels extremely active in the region.

Bogota (EFE).- Colom-bia’s leftist FARC rebels have been smuggling U.S.-bound cocaine via Venezuela, Pan-ama and the Pacific, the Bogota daily El Tiempo said Monday, citing unnamed U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration sources.

The information was obtained from documents found on a computer belonging to Edgar Tovar, commander of the 48th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, who was killed by the army.

Police found some 60 e-mails that Tovar exchanged with the FARC high command and several guerrilla commanders in which they discussed drug shipments and alliances with gangs to move the drugs out of southwestern Colombia.