NEW COCA PLANT YIELD MORE COCAINE

BOGOTA -- Colombian drug cartels have developed a new strain of coca plant
that yields up to four times more cocaine, dealing a setback to a campaign
against production of the drug that was beginning to show results.

The new plant was discovered by police during an operation in the mountains
of the Sierra Nevada. Experts pronounced it to be a new strain developed by
drugs traffickers.

It is estimated that the traffickers spent $141 million Cdn in research to
develop the new plant, crossbreeding strains from Peru with potent Colombian
varieties, and using genetic engineering.