Managua.
Nicaraguan National Police reported this month about the seizure of two shipments of cocaine worth more than three million dollars in separate actions near the border with Honduras.
Police seized a total of 141 kilograms of cocaine in anti-drug agents executed in the departments (provinces) of Chinandega and Nueva Segovia, both with limits at border separating Nicaragua from Honduras.
Of the total confiscated, 86 kilograms were confiscated in the rural region of Los Clavos, El Viejo, Chinandega, worth $ 2.1 million, according to the second head of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ). National Police, Victoriano Ruiz, through government media.
In that operation, the agents did not capture anyone, because the traffickers “would have” left behind the “drug transport” when they saw the presence of the police “, he said.
The remaining 55 kilograms of cocaine were confiscated in the community of Santa Clara, San Fernando, Nueva Segovia, for a value of 1.3 million dollars, according to National Police.
On that occasion, the agents captured two men, identified as Lenner Ramón Rodríguez González and Deybon Benwel, whose nationality was not reported.
Nicaragua It has a permanent strategy called the “Isolation Wall” to prevent drug trafficking in population centers and international trafficking.
Nicaragua is geographically located in a corridor of high drug trafficking that is produced in South America and is subsequently transferred to North America, where Mexican cartels operate mainly and where the main consumers live.