A small plane with 475 kilos of cocaine coming from Bolivia was intercepted near Rosario

The Security Ministers, Patricia Bullrichand Defense, Luis Petriannounced that a small plane with 475 kilos of cocaine coming from Bolivia was intercepted 20 kilometers from Rosario. “It was the most successful operation of the Argentine Republic,” Patricia Bullrich and Luis Petri said at a press conference at Casa Rosada. “Now we are going after the drug traffickers,” they completed.

In detail, the intercepted plane was a Cessna 206 unauthorized flying in Argentine airspace without authorization. The ministers confirmed that the drug shipment could be seized by the Armed forces. Although they recognized that upon arriving at the landing site of the aircraft, ““2 trucks were escaping.” where the criminals escaped, the minister announced on her X account that the pilot of the drug plane was arrested.

The air operation against drug trafficking

The plane was pursued for more than 2 hours until its cargo could be seized by the Armed Forces just 20 kilometers from the city of Rosario. According to officials, the shipment contained 475 kilograms of cocaine and had a value of approximately US$7,000,000.

Regarding the operation, Petri reported: “Yesterday at 2:46 p.m. the recently inaugurated radar detected an echo 40 kilometers to the northwest. From there, at 3 p.m. it identified that it was a small plane that had entered to Argentine airspace via Bolivia” and after this he assured that “two Vulcan planes that were in Reconquista were ordered to move and, as of 3:35 p.m., they managed to intercept this plane.”

For her part, the Minister of Security assured that the fight against drug trafficking must take place “at all levels. Land at the borders, by water and by air“.

“We had to wait for the coordinates and travel 20km to get there. When the gendarmerie arrived2 trucks were already escaping and we are looking for them.and we are going to do everything possible to look for them and see where that drug came from,” Bullrich said.

Regarding the fight against drug trafficking, the minister stated: “It is not the first plane that we discovered, we have discovered many planes.” In this sense, he named cases that occurred in Santiago del Estero and the City of Buenos Aires.

“It’s not going to be free to enter Argentina. The flights are going to think about it 5 times“said the PRO leader.

Bullrich highlighted the fight against drug trafficking

After the announcement, Bullrich explained that the federal prosecutor Claudio Kishimoto of the city of Rosarioto continue the investigation of what happened. “There have been no arrests, there are some indications“said the minister.

“This year, if luck is with us these 2 months left, It is going to be the year with the most cocaine seizures in Argentine history. “Having had enormous operations,” Bullrich said about the fight against the illegal sale of drugs in Argentine territory.

Both officials highlighted the results of the Bandera operation in Rosario. “Today it is working, The weekend had 80 percent hotel occupancy and 90 percent restaurant occupancy. It means that Rosario is a city that we have to take care of because today it is in full activity,” said the leader of the security portfolio about the city of Santa Fe.

Finally, Bullrich assured that Argentina “does not produce cocaine“But there is a”huge lack of control“in the production of”medical marijuana“. In this sense, he reported that they discovered “a huge deviation” from “a place with 18 plants, to a place in Santa Fe that had 1,800 plants. “It was an organized narco-criminal organization.”

“We have consumption and we have marijuana plantations, which began to be legal and many of them became drug criminal companies and we are going to order it yes or yes. One thing is a remedy and another thing is to sell.through the screen of a company, sell marijuana that you destroys the neuronal system and destroys your nervous system“, he stated.