Hidden in bananas and tea, cocaine departs Ecuador port by the ton
ByAFP
Published April 21, 2022
Karla Pesantes
Trying to prevent drug traffickers from hiding cocaine in cargo containers at Ecuador’s main port of Guayaquil is becoming an increasingly expensive headache for police and exporters alike.
The ingenuity of criminal gangs means tons of cocaine leave the port hidden in food containers.
Surrounded by a poor neighborhood, the Guayaquil port is a hive of activity, where trained dogs sniff here and there while police officers cut into bananas, pineapples and even tea drums looking for drugs.
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Thanks to the dogs, liquid drugs hidden by traffickers inside tea drums were recently detected after passing through the scanner without incident.
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