The Honduran authorities found and They burned about 93 hectares containing 705,500 plants of coca in the mountains in the east of the country in operations against drug trafficking, the military reported on Thursday.
In the municipality of Jalisco, Patuca, Olancho Department, “drug plantations with about 705,500 coca leaf plants, located in a Expansion of 133 properties“said a statement from the Military Public Order Police (PMOP).
Likewise, a nursery with 30,000 coca leaf seedlings in 20 blocks (about 14 hectares) was destroyed, as well as “a drug processing center and a zinc-roofed timber warehouse used as a storage facility,” he added.
He explained that four other rural communities in the neighboring department of Colón had been found and found They destroyed about 74,000 marijuana bushes.
Since 2017, Honduran authorities have discovered coca plantations that the cartels had used to transport cocaine to the major U.S. market since the 1970s.
In August 2022, the largest seizure of 1.7 million coca plants, the cultivation of which is banned in Honduras, was recorded. In 2023, Honduras confiscated 4.7 million coca plants and in 2022 about 6.5 million.
On March 8, former two-term president (2014-2018 and 2018-2022), Juan Orlando Hernández, was found guilty of three drug trafficking offenses in federal court in New York and faces a prison sentence on June 26 . forever.
With information from AFP.
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