Bolivia's booming cocaine industry was also spawning serious health problems for Bolivian youth.

Up to 380,000 inhabitants of the valley are engaged in the cocaine industry.

The cocaine industry had a generally deleterious effect on the Bolivian economy.

Paid in Full is about a young man who rises to the top of the cocaine industry in Harlem.

But the cocaine industry does not appear to have the well-defined hierarchical structure of organized crime in the United States.

By 1981, the power of the cocaine industry was centered in Medellin, an industrial city of two million tucked deep inside a smog-filled valley.

Originally politically motivated, many of Colombia's guerrillas have become hired guns for the nation's $20 billion cocaine industry.

The cocaine industry in Colombia is known for the huge profits it generates - an estimated $4 billion a year.

The prime target is now the city's giant cocaine industry and its street distributors of crack, rather than heroin.

Over the long term, the problem was the cocaine industry in South America.