Cuban Border Guard troops and the United States Coast Guard frustrated an international drug trafficking operation north of Banes, Holguín, with 340.7 kilograms of marijuana.
The drug was stored in a total of 17 containers, the Prensa Latina agency publishes.
A phone call from the 7th District of the Coast Guard Service in Miami alerted the Cuban authorities on May 18. Then they warned of the presence of a boat with two crew members on board and two outboard motors 5 miles north of the province.
Two surface units of Border Guard Troops went to the place, located the drug traffickers and chased them in an operation that ended with the launching of the packages into the sea.
The drug traffickers were detained by the US authorities. The containers will be investigated by the Operational Guard in Holguín.
Cuban troops broke up another drug trafficking attempt when a group of Cubans residing abroad smuggled drugs into the country.
The group employed people who acted as drug mules or couriers through an air channel, and smuggled them inside electrical appliances using non-commercial cargo for the first time.
The Cuban government adheres to the 11 extradition treaties, 34 legal aid treaties, 42 drug treaties, and 31 transfer treaties with other countries, the main multilateral legal instruments approved by the United Nations.
Similarly, it constantly reaffirms its policy of zero tolerance for drugs.
