The authorities of Honduras have seized more than 3 tons of drugs this year, according to the spokesman of the National Inter-institutional Security Force (FUSINA), Santos Nolasco.
So far in 2017, Honduran security forces have confiscated 516 kilos of cocaine in different anti-drug operations.
FUSINA has also seized more than 2,727 kilos of marijuana and about 600 firearms, including about fifty hundred rifles.
Nolasco said the Honduran government has launched an air, sea and land “shield” against drug trafficking in the Caribbean, which has reduced cocaine’s numbers the country.
The “air shield” was imposed by Honduras unilaterally, while in the “sea shield” has the support of the United States through a coastguard in international waters adjoining those of the Central American country in the Caribbean.
Forces of the National Police, the National Police of Public Order and other institutions developed the terrestrial shield.
At least 80% of the drug that arrives in Mexico from South America to the United States goes through Honduras, according to authorities in Washington.
Official Honduran sources report that 80% of the drug transiting Honduras is transported by sea and the remaining 20% by land and air.
FUSINA is made up of the National Police, the Military Police of Public Order, the Intelligence Troop and Special Security Response Groups, judges and prosecutors.