Tegucigalpa.
Honduran authorities seized a shipment of 25 kg of cocaine in packages containing photos of what appears to be an identity card of historic Colombian capo Pablo Escobar this Monday in the eastern region of the Mosquitia.
Armed Forces spokesman, Lieutenant José Coello, reported that during an operation in the Gracias a Dios department, the Honduran authorities chased a boat that ran aground in the sector of the Patuca Bar. Inside they found the medicine. The occupants managed to escape.
He indicated that all drugs they seize usually carry logos, names or numbers. But “this time he brought a figure (…) of Pablo Escobar,” the famous Colombian drug dealer who died in 1993.
About 1,000 Honduran troops have been deployed in the Caribbean department since 2010 thank God in an air, land, and maritime shield to attempt to stop the traffic of cocaine from the producing countries of South America to the American market.
The cartels use the depopulated area inhabited by the indigenous people of Miskito to land small planes in remote areas and dock in the Caribe.
Reports on the International Narcotics Strategy from the International Bureau of Narcotics Affairs and Enforcement of the State Law Department from the United States, it was found that drug trafficking by Honduras has declined by 83% in recent years.
Meanwhile, the Honduran authorities have explained that the report published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2013 indicated that 87% of the cocaine going north through our country, while the 2020 publication found that the passage of drugs for the country was 4%, representing an 83% reduction in the past six years.
Similarly, in quantifying the value of cocaine on its transit north, a report by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime points out that in 2013 the value of the drug circulating in Central America was $ 4.8 billion. amounted to, because of what the drug traffickers who operated on all of the Central American Atlantic coasts lost $ 24 billion in the past six years.