COLOMBIA: A brief summary of the drug hunt

Power diver
(Image: Colombian Navy)

A brief summary of the drug hunt in the Pacific-Caribbean navy shows that a good 130 tonnes of cocaine and 35 tonnes of marijuana were caught in the first nine months - that's around 4.5 billion dollars in commercial value, which organised crime and armed gangs in the region would have used to support their illegal activities. Just at the end of October, another two-tonne catch with a street value of 65 million dollars was made on his way to Mexico. A highly motorised, self-built semi-submersible was used, in the belly of which were 120 watertight packages containing well over a thousand brick-sized, neatly pressed blocks of coke - fitted with geo-transponders for later collection! So that nothing would get lost!