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For: The Opinion
Sunday, November 24
El Salvador seizes cocaine shipment valued at almost $ 104 million
The Naval Force of El Salvador seized this Monday more than four tons of cocaine in the waters of the Pacific , as reported by President Nayib Bukele.
The president indicated that This is the “largest drug seizure” since the Territorial Control Plan was implemented in 2019 and assured that this shipment would be valued at about $ 103, 900, 000 of dollars.
The president also calculated that this drug would have an approximate value of 2, 050 bitcoins.
Bukele pointed out that the drug was transported in two submersible boats, known as “low profile vessel ”at two different points and more than 750 kilometers of Salvadoran beaches.
In this operation, the military authorities detained 5 Colombians and 2 Ecuadorians.
In mid-November, A drug shipment of approximately 2.5 tons was seized by members of the Armed Forces, with a value calculated by the authorities of $ 60, 500, 000 of dollars .
“Step by step,” Bukele said in reference to his administration’s fight against crime, while Defense Minister René Merino, valued the complexity of this operation, first in which two submersibles are located simultaneously.
According to official statistics, so far 2021 were seized close to 11. 6 tons of drugs of different other types, valued at $ 269, 000, 000 of dollars, while in 2020 the authorities seized 2.7 tons of narcotics, for a $ 4 value, 000, 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 of re-dispatch of drugs from South America and destined to the consumer markets of North America and Europe. ”
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