Navy seizes 1,600 kilos of cocaine off the coast of Guerrero

The Mexican Navy connected Wednesday announced that its unit had seized astir 1,600 kilograms of cocaine from a vas connected the unfastened oversea southwest of Acapulco, Guerrero.

The Ministry of the Navy (SEMAR) and different national information authorities said successful a connection that Navy unit performing Coast Guard functions disconnected Mexico’s Pacific seashore seized 54 packages containing a full of 1,600 packages of cocaine.

The Navy spotted the smugglers during regular patrols of known cause trafficking routes, officials said. (SEMAR)

The cocaine-carrying vas was located during “maritime and aerial patrols to support the regularisation of law,” according to the SEMAR statement.

Navy vessels and craft were monitoring known cause trafficking routes, the ministry said.

SEMAR said that the seizure was “part of the actions to forestall illicit substances reaching the streets.”

No arrests were reported. The confiscated cocaine was turned implicit to the “appropriate authority,” SEMAR said.

With the latest seizure, much than 48 metric tons of cocaine person present been confiscated since President Claudia Sheinbaum took bureau connected Oct. 1, 2024, according to information authorities.

The confiscations of the cause person stopped astir 3.2 cardinal “doses” of cocaine from reaching the “hands of young people,” SEMAR said.

It besides said that the economical interaction of the seizures connected transgression groups was 371.8 cardinal pesos (US $20.06 billion).

Mexican cartels vessel ample quantities of narcotics, including cocaine, to the United States, the world’s largest marketplace for illicit drugs.

In its 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment report, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said that “Colombia remains the superior root state for cocaine entering the United States, followed by Peru and Bolivia.

“Mexico-based cartels get multi-ton cocaine shipments from South America and smuggle it via sea, air, oregon overland to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean for consequent question into the United States,” the DEA said.

245 metric tons of drugs seized successful 11 months 

Earlier this week, national Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said that authorities had seized 245 metric tons of drugs since the existent authorities took bureau past October.

He told Sheinbaum’s Tuesday greeting property league that the magnitude included much than 3.6 cardinal fentanyl pills.

Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said Mexican authorities person seized 245 metric tons of drugs successful little than a year, a quantity that includes much than 3 cardinal fentanyl pills. (Galo Cañas/Cuartoscuro)

García Harfuch besides said that the Mexican Army and Navy person unopen down 1,400 methamphetamine laboratories successful the past 11 months.

“As a result, millions of doses of drugs person been kept disconnected the streets, and hundreds of millions of pesos person been prevented from reaching organized crime,” helium said.

The Mexican authorities has travel nether aggravated unit from its U.S. counterpart to bash much to combat cause cartels and halt the northward travel of narcotics.

So-called “fentanyl tariffs” that U.S. President Donald Trump imposed successful March stay successful effect. They people imports from Mexico that don’t comply with the rules of the USMCA escaped commercialized pact.

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