Esmeraldas, the focus of drugs maritime control

The drug traffickers boats are equipped with navigation and communication devices. This allows them to identify clandestine routes and avoid maritime control.

This is how the drug dealers carrying drug shipments to Central America and the US These data were obtained from seizures carried out in Ecuadorian waters. Seven days ago, the team of Coast Guard Navy of Ecuador made one of the operations against the mafias.

An helicopter aero maritime exploration was a boat off the coast of Esmeraldas with half a ton of marijuana stopped. In the same waters, 16 days ago there was another seizure of 1.2 tons of cocaine hydrochloride. Coast Guard investigations indicate that Esmeraldas is the point where more you try to pass the alkaloid. (I)