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The Mexican Navy seized 3.5 tons of cocaine hidden in a semi -subject boat off the Pacific coast, authorities said on Friday, while throwing videos from the “Narco Sub” being intercepted.

The ship, manned by three people and with 180 cocaine packages, was detected during a maritime patrol in waters in front of the southern state of Guerrero, the Navy said in a statement.

The authorities published images of the drugs seized next to a Mexican naval ship, as well as the video of the crafts that was intercepted in the sea.

It is the last of a series of Great Drugs neighborhoods Shown by the Latin American nation, which is under pressure from President Donald Trump to stop the smuggling of narcotics.

The Mexican authorities confiscated more than 44.8 tons of cocaine at sea since President Claudia Sheinbaum assumed the position in October, said the Navy.

That month, the Navy announced that it had taken more than 8.3 tons of an un specified type of drugs Found in a semi -subject and a convoy of other ships off the Pacific coast, a record for a single operation in the sea.

At the beginning of June, the authorities said they had taken almost 42 tons of methamphetamine worth more than $ 50 million during raids in illegal drug laboratories on land.

Trump has cited illegal drug trafficking, particularly synthetic opioid Fentanyl – As one of the reasons for the tariffs you have imposed in imports from Mexico.

The semi -subject, who cannot be completely underwater, are popular among international drug traffickers, since sometimes they can avoid police detection. The vessels, which are often Seen in Colombian Aguas While heading to the United States, Central America and Europe, they have also been intercepted in Mexico in recent months.

In November, the Mexican Navy said he seized 3.6 tons of cocaine Aboard a semi -subject against the Pacific coast that was seen about 153 miles from the Acapulco complex.

Last August, Mexico took more than seven tons of cocaine in two separate raids in the Pacific Ocean, and Dramatic video He captured high -speed persecutions in the open sea.

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