Cortés, Honduras
The Honduran authorities confiscate in the Caribbean of the country a total of 858 kilograms of chemicals used to manufacture synthetic drugs that are being seized in 181 United States litigation offices, informs these residents of an official source.
The Honduras National Police indicates in a press release that the cargo was transported in a container that entered the Portuguese National Company, in Puerto Cortés, in the Honduran Caribbean.
Significantly, by agreement with a preliminary investigation, the chemical was sent by the United States as “ink for the printer”.
The decomitated substance is methyl and ketone, known as 2-butanone, which is tested in Honduras because it is “used extensively in cocaine laboratories in the cocaine hydrochloride manufacturing process”, added to the institution of safety,
The operation was carried out by Special Operations Offices of the National Anti-Drug Police Directorate, supported by the Sanitary Regulatory Agency, the Honduran Advisory Agency and the Mercantile General Directorate.
También also participates in the Special Tax against the Crime Organized and Techniques of the Chemical Forensic Laboratory of the Police Directorate of Investigations.
This is the first cargo of chemical precursors decommissioned in Honduras for the security forces this year.
The territory of Honduras, mainly the Caribbean, is used by groups of drug traffickers in South America who send cocaine shipments to the United States.
The violence caused by drug trafficking and the organized crime is one of the main problems facing Honduras, which registers a diary of new homicides.
Honduran authorities will launch marches in 2014 in the Caribbean on airborne, maritime and land-based escorts to reduce U.S. drug trafficking.
The airstrip has been imposed by Honduras in a unilateral manner, while in the maritime sector with the support of the United States and a guardian of international water bodies in the Central American countries of the Caribbean. EFE