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Mexico Security Cabinet Targets 50th Meth Lab in Multi-State Cartel Offensive

Mexico’s federal security cabinet has delivered crippling blows to cartels by synchronizing raids on meth labs, fuel hubs, arms caches

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Aseguran 4 toneladas de metanfetamina en Sinaloa
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Overview

  • Authorities dismantled six clandestine methamphetamine labs in Navolato, Sinaloa, seizing 4,800 kilograms of meth and 47,550 liters of precursor chemicals
  • Security forces intercepted 77,925 liters of stolen fuel in Jalisco, 31,000 liters in Oaxaca and more than 4.2 million liters of diesel in San Luis Potosí
  • Coordinated operations in ten states also led to the seizure of weapons, explosives, vehicles and cash along with multiple arrests of suspects linked to organized crime
  • The Navy led the raids in partnership with Sedena, the National Guard, the federal prosecutor’s office and the Secretariat of Security under ‘Operation Búsqueda’
  • Officials estimate that the campaign has inflicted roughly 1.35 billion pesos in economic losses on cartel networks so far this year