Mexico City.- About 2.8 tons of cocaine They were confiscated by military and federal agents in three different operations on the border with the United States and the southern coast of the Pacific of Mexico, as reported on Saturday, August 23.
According to the report, in San Luis Río Colorado, northwest of Mexico and a neighbor of the American Arizona, military and national guards located 1.3 tons after reviewing a cargo truck at a road point.
The military detachment said that, with the use of range rays, “military personnel detected irregularities” on the roof of the load compartment. The Federal Security Secretary, Omar García Harfuch, reported in his X account that the driver of the unit was arrested while the Attorney General will take over the corresponding inquiries.
On the other hand, according to the official, in Pacific Aguas, on the coast of the State of Guerrero (South), Officers of the Navy “said 900 kilos of cocaine.”
In another operation in the same coastal area, military sailors detected a vessel on board which located 601 kilograms of cocaine. The four crew were arrested.
Trump pressures
Mexico has multiplied its actions against drug trafficking gangs in the midst of pressures of US President Donald Trumpwho threatens their neighbors with tariffs if they do not stop drug trafficking.
In that context, both countries negotiate a security agreement, amid versions of the American press that at the beginning of August Trump ordered the army to fight Latin American drug traffickers, some of them designated in February of this year as organizations Terrorists
