(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-03-18 09:48

BOGOTA - Most of the cocaine that enters the United States is manufactured by FARC, Alvaro Caro, head of Colombia's drug enforcement police, said Monday.

"The southern guerillas send their cocaine via the Pacific and the northern ones via the Atlantic, but all are equally committed to growing illegal crops and harvesting them for export," he said.

FARC, or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, is the country's largest rebel group.

Caro said the guerillas were in direct contact with Mexico's Sinaloa and Tijuana cartels which ship the cocaine to the US, Europe and Japan.

On March 1, Colombian troops launched a bombing raid on a FARC camp in the Ecuadoran territory, killing over 20 guerillas, including the organization's second-in-command, Edgar Devia.