Venezuela seizes 2.6 tons of cocaine bound for Honduras

[Catherina]

Venezuela seizes 2.6 tons of cocaine that were bound for Honduras

Venezuelan authorities seized a cache of more than 2.6 tons of cocaine in the port of Maracaibo, Zulia state (northwest) border with Colombia, which were hidden in a container that had Honduras as a destination, said the Ministry of the Interior .


Photo: Image courtesy of the April 25, approved for release by the Ministry of Interior and Justice of Venezuela, showing part of the 2.6 tons of drugs seized in an operation by the authorities, which was shown to the press in Caracas (Venezuela) . EFE


"This seizure of 2,694 kilos of cocaine exactly deals a blow to international drug trafficking, the shipment was specially packaged in an attempt to evade detection," he told reporters Venezuelan Interior Minister, Miguel Rodriguez.

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He said the shipment of cocaine was seized after the National Guard (military police) received information about the cache and proceeded to use special X-ray equipment that detected that the container's contents were not the recycled plastic indicated on the records.

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Two Venezuelans were arrested in this bust, the customs agent in charge of the customs paperwork and the operations manager of Global Service Maritime C.A. that was in charge of the shipment.

http://www.que.es/ultimas-noticias/sucesos/201304260210-venezuela-incauta-toneladas-cocaina-tenian-efe.html

[Scuba]

1. Wow, that's a whole lot of deviated septums!

[Warpy]

2. Yeah, and coke bugs.

I wonder if it was going to support the right wing junta or if it was eventually destined for all the executive thieves who retired to Roatan.

[zbdent]

3. PARTY!

[Catherina]

4. 32.4-percent increase over the same period of 2012

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The seizure is the third-largest so far this year in the country. In February, the Venezuela government seized five tons of marijuana in the southwestern border state of Tachira, and 4.1 tons of cocaine in Zulia last month.

Venezuelan authorities captured more than 14.6 tons of drugs in the first quarter of 2013, a 32.4-percent increase over the same period of 2012, a year when a total of 45 tons were found or confiscated.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-04/26/c_132341351.htm