Tegucigalpa.
Honduran authorities confiscated a load of 25 kg of cocaine in packages in the eastern region of the Mosquitia on packages that were accompanied by photographs of what appears to be an identity card of the historic Colombian boss Pablo Escobar.
The spokesman of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant José Coello, reported that in an operation carried out in the department of Thank God the Honduran authorities pursued a boat that ran aground in the sector of the Bar of the Patuca. Inside they found the drug. The occupants managed to escape.
He has indicated that all the drugs they confiscate are usually labeled with logos, names or numbers. But “this time he wore a figure (…) of Pablo Escobar”, the famous Colombian drug trafficker who died in 1993.
About 1,000 Honduran troops have been deployed since 2010 in the Caribbean department of Thank God on an air, land and sea shield to try to curb cocaine trafficking from South American producing countries to the US market.
The posters use the depopulated area inhabited by indigenous Miskitos to land small planes in isolated areas and robbers in the Caribbean.
Reports on the International Narcotics Control Strategy of the International Bureau of Narcotics Affairs and Enforcement State Department Act of the United States, revealed that in recent years drug trafficking through Honduras has been reduced by 83%.
Meanwhile, the Honduran authorities detailed that the report published by the State Department in 2013 indicated that 87% of the cocaine that went north passed through our country, while the 2020 publication established that the step of the drug by the country was 4%, representing a reduction of 83% in the last six years.
Also, a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in quantifying the value of cocaine in its transit north, indicates that in 2013 the value of the drug circulating in Central America was 4,800. million dollars, so that drug traffickers operating on all the Central American Atlantic coasts have stopped receiving $ 24 trillion in the last six years.