Over 50 tons of cocaine seized by US Coast Guard in Pacific since August

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The U.S. Coast Guard says that it has seized over 50 tons of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean since launching Operation Pacific Viper in early August, averaging nearly a ton daily.

In total, 86 people suspected of narco-trafficking have been arrested as a result of 34 interdictions since early August, according to a statement from the U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday.

“Through Operation Pacific Viper, the Coast Guard is accelerating counter-drug operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, where significant transport of illicit narcotics continues from Central and South America,” officials said.

The U.S. Coast Guard said that it has surged their assets in the region in the past two months in order to “interdict, seize and disrupt transshipments of cocaine and other bulk illicit drugs.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/over-50-tons-cocaine-seized-065208680.html

And they didn't have to blow the ship out of the water.

[Blue Owl]

1. Somewhere Don Jr. is weeping

[Celerity]

4. 5,4,3,2,..................

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[Haggard Celine]

2. I wonder how long it will take the CIA to re-sell it.

[AlanAdam]

3. What?

Sorry, I don't understand the value of a comment like that.

[maxsolomon]

5. Welcome to DU

Maybe you'll learn the value of "comments like that" over your time here.

Maybe you'll learn that it doesn't have value per se, and it's simply a jape referencing the CIA's history of involvement in the cocaine trade to aid the Contras in Nicaragua.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking

Or perhaps you won't learn anything.