Fight vs. Drug Trafficking: United States Donates Three Caribbean Surveillance Boats to Colombia

On Thursday, the U.S. government handed over three ‘Apostle’ type boats to the Colombian National Navy, this as part of its cooperation in maritime security to combat drug trafficking and other illegal activities in Caribbean waters, the U.S. Embassy in the South American country reported.The donation was formalized during a ceremony in the Caribbean city of Cartagena de Indias in which Colombian chancellor Laura Sarabia and U.S. Embassy busines…

These are Apostle type boats that will be operated by the Colombian National Navy.

On Thursday, the U.S. government handed over three ‘Apostle’ type boats to the Colombian National Navy as part of its cooperation in maritime security to combat drug trafficking and other illegal activities in Caribbean waters, the U.S. Embassy in the Andean country reported. The donation was formalized during a ceremony in [...] The U.S. entry donates to Colombia three boats to combat drug trafficking in the Caribbean was first published in Inf…

Colombian authorities seized 511 kilos of cocaine and arrested two Dominicans, who were transporting the stash in a vessel intercepted in the waters of the department of La Guajira, in the Caribbean, military sources reported on Thursday, May 29. The commander of the Santa Marta Coast Guard Station, corvette captain Jorge Carvajal, said that the rapid boat interdiction operation, equipped with two outboard engines, occurred about 64 kilometers n…