Colombian authorities have seized 7.6 tonnes of coc@ine bound for the Netherlands at the port of Cartagena, in what President Abelardo de la Espriella described as the country's largest drug seizure in the past 10 years.
"The National Police has just achieved the largest cocaine seizure in the port of Cartagena in the last 10 years," he wrote on X.
Speaking in Cartagena on Tuesday, October 20 , the president said the joint operation was carried out in cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
"There is no truce against narco-terrorism! Every dose we prevent from reaching the streets saves lives, and every dollar we take from them weakens their criminal structures," he added.
De la Espriella said the shipment was worth 43 billion Colombian pesos domestically and would have been worth more than $200 million once it reached the Netherlands.
