The Mexican Navy seized 8.3 tons of drugs off the country’s southwest coast, which it says is a record amount seized by it at sea. The Navy did not say what drugs were involved. Their price was estimated at more than two billion pesos (about 2.5 billion crowns), the AFP agency wrote today.
In an action about which the Mexican Navy informed on Friday, 23 people were also arrested. The operation took place southwest of the port of Lázaro Cardenas, which is located in the state of Michoacán. Drugs and smugglers were detained on a total of six vessels.
According to AFP, the authorities seized the largest amount of drugs in Mexican history in November 2007, when customs officials seized 23 tons of cocaine in the port city of Manzanillo in western Mexico. Customs officials found this cocaine from Colombia on a Hong Kong-flagged ship.
For decades, Mexico has been the center of the drug trade, with various drug cartels fighting for control. None of the governments manage to break their networks. Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, who took office on October 1 as the first woman in the country’s history, has already presented a “national security plan” in an effort to curb the violence of drug gangs.
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