Authorities in El Salvador announced Sunday, July 25 that they had seized 585 kilos of cocaine, worth $ 14.6 million, during an operation in the Pacific Ocean.
The drugs
"were transported by two Ecuadorians and a Colombian,"
Defense Minister René Francis Merino announced on Twitter.
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The cargo, bound for Guatemala, was transported on a boat intercepted 575 km south of the port of Acajutla, on the west coast of El Salvador. With this seizure,
"we demonstrate the commitment"
that El Salvador has
"to the international community
,
"
said René Francis Merino.