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Cocaine seizure in Uruguay described as historic
“It’s a historic cocaine seizure, apparently based on field evidence,” Interior Minister Carlos Negro said at a press conference, expressing his “great satisfaction with the work of the police.” The seizure of the drugs was the result of simultaneous raids carried out in the departments of Montevideo and Canelones. “It’s certainly a hard blow to drug trafficking,” the minister, who considered that it “is a culmination of the work we have been do…
A police operation in Uruguay thwarted a massive shipment of cocaine to Europe, seizing two tons of the drugs that were buried in a precarious farm outside Montevideo. The drug, valued at $13 million in the local market and up to 60 million in Europe, was ready to be transported by boat to a boat on the high seas. Interior Minister Carlos Negro described the operation as “historical” and highlighted the joint work of various police divisions, in…
The Interior Minister, Carlos Negro, positively evaluated the historical seizure of more than two tons of cocaine in the Nueva Era operation in the Punta de Espinillo area of Montevideo. “The National Police has dealt a hard blow to drug trafficking,” emphasized Interior Minister Carlos Negro, who acknowledged his pride in the work of the police investigation in a seizure that means approximately $15 million in the Uruguayan market and reaches $…
The operation, the result of an investigation initiated in April 2025, allowed the dismantling of a criminal structure that operated in Uruguay as a logistical support for the export of cocaine by river. The finding occurred in a farm of precarious conditions, located in the area of Santiago Vázquez, difficult to access and hidden among sugarcane, according to officials of the Ministry of the Interior.
The Uruguayan authorities seized more than two tons of cocaine destined abroad, where they could reach a value of more than $50 million, according to official estimates.
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