Honduras has become a major transit point in the cocaine trade as reported by Mark Stevenson for The Associated Press:
Honduras is the number one offload point for traffickers to take cocaine through Mexico to the U.S.," said a U.S. law enforcement official who could not be quoted by name for security reasons. A U.S. State Department report released in March called Honduras "one of the primary landing points for South American cocaine." Almost half of the cocaine that reaches the United States is now offloaded somewhere along the country's coast and heavily forested interior - a total of 20 to 25 tons each month, according to U.S. and Honduran estimates.
Last July the U.S. Coast Guard discovered a semi-submersible narco sub off the Caribbean coast of Honduras, and authorities from the Central American country recovered 13.8 tons of cocaine worth $500 million from it as then reported by the Global Post.
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