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By: EFE
Sunday, November 24
Destroy “largest” drug shipment seized in El Salvador in 2021
The authorities of El Salvador calcined this Monday a shipment of 2.7 tons of cocaine, recently seized in waters of the Pacific and that represents the seizure “more big ”drug in 2021, according to official sources.
The procedure, in which agents of the National Civil Police, members of the Prosecutor’s Office and authorities of the General Directorate of Medicines, was carried out in an open field of the San José Changallo canton, in the municipality of Ilopango (east).
The cargo, whose economic value is around $ 67, 500, 000 of dollars, was seized more than 851 kilometers from the coast of the town of Acajutla (western nte), as reported by President Nayib Bukele in the past 19 of November.
The drug was transported in three boats led by 4 Ecuadorians, 2 Colombians and 3 Mexicans, who faced a criminal proceeding in the Central American country for the crime of illicit trafficking.
The head of the Ministry of Defense, René Merino Monroy, said this Monday in a press conference that said seizure is the “largest of the year” and indicated that so far from 2021 have been seized 7.4 tons of different types of drugs valued at $ 165, 700, 000 of dollars.
On 2020, according to Merino Monroy, were seized 2.7 tons of drug with a value of $ 4, 000, 000 of dollars and in 2019 the seized narcotic was 785 kilograms valued at $ 1, 300, 04 of dollars.
According to a report by 2020 of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), drug trafficking in Central America and The Caribbean contributes to increasing the already very high level of violence in the region due to the competitive struggle between criminal groups .
INCB insists that “local gangs and international criminal groups continue to exploit” the Central American and Caribbean region “as a transit zone and route for the re-dispatch of pro drugs South American originators and destined for the North American and European consumer markets. ”
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