Tegucigalpa.- Honduran security forces located more than 900 kilos of cocaine this Friday hidden in a mangrove area in the south of the country, where 648 kilos of the same substance had already been seized recently, thus exceeding 1.5 tons confiscated in less than 48 hours.
However, the authorities do not rule out that the amount of seized drugs may increase as the searches progress, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Security, Edgardo Barahona, told reporters.
The second shipment, distributed in 37 bales, was apparently transported in speedboats and hidden among the vegetation of a mangrove swamp located between the departments of Choluteca and Valle, bordering Nicaragua and El Salvador, respectively, Barahona detailed.
Agents of the National Anti-Drug Police Directorate (DNPA) and Special Forces detected the packages by taking advantage of the low tide, within the framework of the operations deployed after the first discovery of 648 kilos of cocaine, whose estimated value is 175 million lempiras (about 6.5 million dollars) on the market, according to the authorities.
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The National Police and the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Organized Crime are working to identify the criminal structure responsible, as well as the origin and destination of the shipment, the Security spokesperson pointed out, after confirming that there are currently no detained individuals.
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According to official figures, prior to these findings, the cocaine confiscated so far this year in Honduras amounted to more than 1.5 tons, with an estimated economic impact of nearly 500 million lempiras (about 19 million dollars) on drug trafficking structures, which underscores the importance of these latest shipments confiscated in this mangrove area.
National and foreign drug traffickers use Honduran territory to send drugs to the United States, coming from South America.
