Ecuadorian police and navy seized approximately 1.5 tons of cocaine hydrochloride at a distance of 100 nautical miles. Presumably the final destination was Mexico.

The operation took place early this Sunday morning at Ecuadorian exclusive zone, This is stated in the police report.

He noted that after pursuing the speedboat, they captured 33 packages containing 1259 packages of medicines. and two geopositioning buoys.

“According to the first findings of the investigation, alkaloid thrown into the sea, “It was destined for the Pacific Route and was headed to Mexico,” he said.

The total weight of the narcotic substance seized is 1,469,000 grams, which “means 14,690,000 doses” with a value of $40 million nationally– the letter says.

Surrounded by Colombia and Peru, the world’s two largest cocaine producers, Ecuador has become a hub for the trade in recent years. a key point in the global trafficking of this drug, as the mafia uses its ports and coasts to ship tons of this drug to Europe and North America.

This did Ecuador too third country in the world that seizes the most drugssecond only to Colombia and the United States, with more than 200 tons of drugs seized annually over the past three years.

Organized crime groups operating in Ecuador have intertwined connections with the Mexican cartels Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Transporting drugs to North America by boat or semi-submersible has become commonplace, according to Ecuadorian authorities.

At the same time they were also associated with Albanian mafia for supplies to Europe, in cargo containers that are sent to the ports of Ecuador.

(EFE)