1.4 tons of cocaine were floating in the Pacific Ocean 1,000 miles from the coast of El Salvador
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Breaks of recent drug busts of $ 500 million
El Salvador seized packages containing 1.4 tons of cocaine Floating in the Pacific Ocean, President Nayib Bukele said Tuesday, qualifying him as a strike “against international drug trafficking.”
The shipment was found approximately 1,000 miles southwest of El Cordoncillo at the mouth of the jaltepeque estuary on the Pacific coast of El Salvador, he said, in a publication on social networks that included images of the seizure.
The seizure occurs when President Donald Trump has declared the war against Latin American drug traffickers and posters designated foreign terrorist organizations.
International criminal posters use Central America as an entrance door for drug trafficking, especially cocaine, to the United States.
The Salvadoran president said that floating packages were valued at $ 35 million.
Between 2024 and 2025, El Salvador seized 37.2 tons of cocaine with an estimated value of $ 932.4 million, Bukele added.
The United States Embassy in El Salvador praised the operation, emphasizing that “every successful action against criminal networks shows that there is a growing synchrony between partners with common objectives.”
Washington estimates that 90% of cocaine that arrives in the United States passes through Mexico and Central America through small airplanes, ships and “Narco sub”
Our National Navy hit international drug trafficking again.
At 900 nautical miles (1,667 km) southwest of La Bocana El Cordoncillo, Estero de Jaltepeque, we locate packages with cocaine floating on the dot, which would be subsequently collected by structures … pic.twitter.com/4fsxgdfiue
– Nayab Bukey (@nanibjela) September 10, 2025
Trump has sent several war ships towards Venezuelaaccusing the government of being part of drug trafficking, and ordered a missile strike in an alleged drug boat, Kill.
Trump said the attack attacked members of Aragua trainan organized crime group based in Venezuela that has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
Last week defense secretary Pete Hegseth said The United States will maintain the assets positioned in the Caribbean and attack any “traffic in the waters that we know is a designated narco terrorist.”
The United States is also Send 10 F-35 Combat Aircraft For the Caribbean for operations aimed at drug cartels, a source familiar with confirmed plans to News themezone last week.
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