The first seizure of 2,782 kilos was made in the port of the city of Barranquilla, where the cocaine that was to be sent to Valencia, in Spain, was found mixed with coconut substrate. Almost simultaneously, a shipment of 1,811 kilos was confiscated in the port of Santa Marta in a container with fruits destined for Belgium. The third shipment, 410 kilos of cocaine, was also seized in Barranquilla, police said.
The drug shipments are valued at more than 150 million dollars, according to authorities who did not report any arrests. In 2021, Colombian authorities confiscated 669.3 tons of cocaine.
“These results are achieved by strengthening investigations and analysis of companies and people who use the country’s ports on a daily basis,” the police said in a statement.
Drug trafficking is considered the main fuel that feeds the internal armed conflict of almost six decades that left 450,000 people dead, most of them civilians, between 1985 and 2018 alone, according to the Truth Commission.
Involved in drug trafficking are the FARC dissidents that rejected a peace agreement signed in 2016, the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and criminal gangs such as the Clan del Golfo that have alliances with international cartels, mainly from Mexico, from according to security sources. (Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta, edited by Nelson Bocanegra)
Source: Ambito
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