Mr. Escobar, the head of the cartel, was killed by Colombian military troops in December 1993.

It'll be the Colombian troops or the jungle take your pick.

That would guide the Colombian troops in, but it would bring guards down from the main house, too.

But on that same day four hundred new Colombian troops were landed at Colon.

This year, a couple hundred Yankee advisers to help the 80,000 Colombian troops; tomorrow, the great gringo invasion.

By 1982, increased income from the "coca boom" allowed them to expand into an irregular army, which would then stage large-scale attacks on Colombian troops.

A crucial component is a fleet of sophisticated transport and attack helicopters to ferry Colombian troops.

Policemen on patrol are frequently fired upon, and military officials say that despite the new deployment of Colombian troops the pipeline is still exposed to attack.

After Bolívar's death in 1830, the Colombian troops withdrew, and the war came to an end.

Reportedly, extensive bribes were paid to get the few Colombian troops stationed in Panama to lay down their arms.