Salvadoran authorities present Colombian drugs seized in the Pacific

Security authorities of El Salvador presented to the press this Monday a cocaine shipment that was located in Pacific waters and whose commercial value amounts to 30 million dollarss, as reported.

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According to the Minister of Defense, René Merino Monroy, the Naval Force of El Salvador brought to the mainland “24 packages and each one is estimated to have 20 packages of drugsrepresenting 1,200 kilograms (1.2 tons) of cocaine, valued at $30 million.”

Also three Colombians were presented, you want were the crew members of a semi-submersible vessel where the drug was being transported.

On March 27, President Nayib Bukele informed via Twitter of the seizure of said drug, which It was located about 963 kilometers from the mouth of El Cordoncilloin the Jaltepeque estuary, more than 108 kilometers from San Salvador.

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At the beginning of March, security elements seized some 145 kilograms of cocaine valued at more than 3 million dollars in Pacific waters.

The 2020 report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) notes that drug trafficking in Central America and the Caribbean contributes to increasing the already very high level of violence in the region by the competitive struggle between criminal groups.

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The INCB insists that “local gangs and international criminal groups continue to exploit” the Central American and Caribbean region “as a transit area and transshipment route for drugs from South America destined for consumer markets in the Americas North and Europe”.

EFE