With naval intelligence information provided by the Colombian Navy to the authorities of Ecuador, the United States, Mexico and Panama, the seizure of 11.5 tons of drugs took place during several days of the previous week.
This seizure was made in different maritime interdiction operations, within international cooperation agreements in the fight against drug trafficking.
Rafael Olaya Quintero, commander of the Task Force against Drug Trafficking of the Colombian Navy, indicated that with this international coup against several organizations dedicated to illegal drug trafficking, more than 25 million doses of narcotics, an alkaloid valued at 358 million dollars.
During these anti-narcotics operations, 23 people were arrested: twelve Mexicans, four Colombians, four Panamanians and three Ecuadorians.
The first operations took place off the coast of Panama, in the sectors of Chitré, Punta Mala, Punta Jaque and San Carlos, and where they had the support of the Interagency Joint Task Force of the United States Southern Command ( JIATFS). There they managed to intercept four speedboats in which 1.3 tons of cocaine and 1.09 tons of marijuana were mobilized.
The second interdiction work took place off the coasts of Manabí and Santa Elena, specifically in the waters of Manta and Santa Elena, respectively, where units of the Ecuadorian Navy, with the support of JIAFTS, managed to seize 3.6 tons of cocaine that they intended to send, according to preliminary inquiries, to Central America.
Ecuadorian arrested with drugs off the coast of Colombia; the shipment is valued at more than 60 million dollars
The coasts of Mexico were the next point of interdiction of ships with alkaloids, in the waters of Jalisco, Acapulco and Zihuatanejo, where the transit of four motor ships loaded with 4.9 tons of cocaine was interrupted.
Finally, in Colombian territory, units of the Bahía Solano Coast Guard Station, in development of security and maritime control operations, dealt the most recent blow to drug trafficking with the seizure of 508 kilograms of cocaine, distributed in 17 sacks, which were found adrift under the modality of sowing in the sea.
According to the investigations, this technique is used by drug traffickers who deliver the coordinates of the location of the drug to transnational crime organizations, for its subsequent recovery and trafficking, Olaya said.
“The Colombian Navy will continue to carry out joint, coordinated, combined and multilateral operations against drug trafficking organizations in order to continue closing national and international maritime spaces to this multinational scourge that affects public health, especially of young people, in all the world,” Olaya declared. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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