In total, 1,298 kilograms of drugs were counted with Central America and Europe as nearby points.
Colombian authorities detected 1.29 tons of drugs inside a container that arrived at the port of Buenaventura.
The cache came aboard a container on a ship from Guayaquil, which was in transit in that Colombian town to continue to Cartagena, said Vice Admiral Francisco Cubides, commander of the Pacific Naval Force.
During the inspection, carried out at dawn last Tuesday, Colombian Navy personnel, with the support of the local police and port delegates, found 20 sacks with 1,100 pressed rectangular packages similar to those used by organizations dedicated to drug trafficking.
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Following the approved preliminary identification test, the off-white substance tested positive for cocaine hydrochloride.
In total, 1,298 kilograms of drugs were counted with Central America and Europe as nearby points.
So far this year, Colombia has seized 160 tons of cocaine and 49 tons of marijuana. “Being a year that we have broken records,” said Cubides, adding that the groups are looking for other nations to carry out the shipment of the drug before the controls in the Colombian coastal zone.
On November 17, in that same port, the discovery of a load of 1.1 tons of cocaine in another container that had left a port in Guayaquil was reported. Then he planned to go to Cartagena and continue to Valencia, Spain. (I)
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