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MEXICO: Mexican authorities burn 23 tonnes of cocaine

Mexican authorities have destroyed what they is their largest-ever seizure of cocaine. Mexican authorities burned on Wednesday (November 28) 23 tonnes of cocaine that were seized in early November at the Pacific port of Manzanillo, 830 kilometers to the east of Mexico City. The haul was considered the biggest ever in Mexico and was discovered by Federal Police, Navy and Custom officers on November 1 inside 6 containers on a Colombian ship. Mexico's Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora calculated that drug traffickers have lost over 3.2 billion dollars with recent seizures. "In two operations we achieved the two largest seizes of cocaine and cash in world's history. In the first case we consider that drug smugglers lost directly 589 million dollars and if we consider the entire drug trafficking international chain, and the price to consumers, the loss could rise to 3.251 billion dollars just for the haul that it's going to be destroyed today," he said. The bust was the latest blow to drug gangs since President Felipe Calderon deployed thousand of troops across Mexico to fight the dominant Gulf and Sinaloa cartels. The seizure doubles the Mexican record, set only last month when soldiers found more than 11 tonnes of cocaine at the port of Tampico on the Atlantic coast.

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