Fields of 88 hectares of coca and a cocaine laboratory were spotted and seized in the mountains of central Honduras, the army of this Central American country announced on Sunday March 12.
This operation in the municipality of Limones, in the department of Olancho (Center), some 215 km northeast of the capital, Tegucigalpa, was the result of "intelligence work
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, argued a statement. of the Army.
More than a million coca shots and four clandestine laboratories have been spotted in Honduras since the beginning of the year.
In 2022, 4.12 tons of cocaine had been seized, down from the 11.72 tons seized in 2021.
Cocaine transit countries
Honduras is an important transit country for Colombian cocaine and other narcotics destined primarily for the North American market.
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The country extradited in July to the United States Herlinda Bobadilla, a 61-year-old suspected gang leader accused of drug trafficking, arrested in May during a shooting in which her son was killed.
In April, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was also extradited to the United States, prosecuted for drug trafficking, just over a year after his brother Tony was sentenced to life imprisonment by a New York court. York.
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