Bogota.- Colombian authorities seized two tons of cocaine in a rural area of the municipality of Sardinata, which is located in the Catatumbo region, bordering Venezuela.As reported by the Anti-Narcotics Police, which detailed in a statement that in the operation carried out by the Jungle Commands on the sidewalk (case) Las Pailas also seized “2,760 gallons of liquid substances and 650 kilograms of solid substances indispensable for the production of alcaloids”.
The information added that a laboratory that had the capacity to produce about two tons of cocaine was destroyed. According to the authorities, drug traffickers used the border to bring the drug to the Caribbean and Central America. Last Friday, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released a report that coca crops were slightly reduced in Colombia in 2018 from 171,000 hectares to 169,000, but remain in their highest numbers since eating they were calculated. UNODC’s representative in Colombia, Pierre Lapaque, welcomed the fact that the growth of these seedlings was curbed but stated that “it is necessary to mention that Colombia is still at the highest levels of coca cultivation in the entire historical series start in 2001.”
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This study was made public weeks after the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released a report that acres of coca planted in Colombia had a slight decrease of 0.5% and The past year, from 209,000 to 208,000.On the other hand, this week the Colombian and Panamaan authorities seized 4,575 kilograms of cocaine in a joint operation carried out in waters near the isthmus in the Caribbean Sea.In that operation five were captured Colombian citizens.
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