The War on Drugs has a silver lining for the Miskito Indians, as a unique combination of wind, tides, and interdiction has caused one of Nicaragua’s desolate coastal areas to be the recipient of tons of adrift cocaine.

Villages that once eked an existence on shrimp and red-tinged lobster have been transformed. In place of thatched wooden huts there are brick houses, mansions and satellite dishes.”They consider it a blessing from God. You see people all day just walking up and down the beaches keeping a lookout to sea.

Colombian traffickers and Nicaraguan middlemen trawl villages offering finders $4,000 (£1,960) a kilo, said Major Perez – seven times less than the US street value but a fortune to a fisherman.

I’ve never heard the words, “fishing” and “profitable” used in the same sentence before, I guess there is a first for everything.

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