Honduras seizes cocaine parcels bearing pictures of Pablo Escobar

Gulf Today Report

Honduran authorities confiscated parcels containing the drug cocaine with an original copy of the identity card of the most famous Colombian drug trafficker, Pablo Escobar, who died 28 years ago.

The seizures amounted to 25 kilogrammes of drugs on board a boat on the coast of Mosquitia in eastern Honduras, after a Honduran navy boat chased it.

Security forces pose in front of the seized drugs.

The spokesman for the armed forces, Lieutenant Jose Coelho said that the smugglers managed to escape.

Coelho explained, “The smugglers used to put slogans, names or numbers on parcels containing drugs to be able to distinguish it from others, but this time they put a picture on it. And it was the face of Pablo Escobar, who was killed in 1993 in Medellin during an operation carried out by the Colombian police.”

Security personnel keep drugs into a sack.

Honduras has deployed nearly 1,000 troops since 2010 on the Caribbean coast of the province of Gracias a Dios to combat drug smuggling via air, sea and land routes from producing countries in South America to the United States market.

This sparsely populated region of Honduras is one of the main drug transit points to the north. Smugglers are reportedly setting up secret airfields in the area and taking advantage of bays on the coast.