BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebels control more than 60 percent of the Andean nation's drug trade, including cocaine trafficking overseas, an activity the armed group has denied during peace talks in Cuba, Colombia's police chief said on Monday.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia earns as much as $1 billion (654 million pounds) a year from the production and sale of cocaine in Colombia and "undoubtedly" is involved in trafficking of the narcotic to international markets, General Jose Roberto Leon, head of the national police force, told Reuters.
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