When the drug trafficker thought that Nayarit was his clandestine kitchen, the Navy arrived with his anti-drug recipe
It seems that the Mexican cartels are not learning: they set up their narco-laboratories as if they were taco stands (but with less hygiene and more carcinogenic chemicals). This time, in San Blas, Nayarit, the Mexican Navy gave them an express class on “how to lose 3.4 million pesos in one day”. The jackpot: 12.8 tons of methamphetamine—enough to keep half the country without sleep until 2030—and a laboratory more equipped than Walter White’s.
Confiscation: when chemistry is used for evil (and the authorities ruin it)
Between land tours and probably a few internal memes, the military found in Boca del Asadero (yes, the name seems taken from a soap opera) a festival of the illegal: 54,500 liters of chemicals, 13,830 kilos of precursors and up to 22 centrifuges (because apparently the drug dealer also makes his own yogurt). All this, according to Semar, was equivalent to 320 million doses… that is, one “success” for organized crime.
And if that were not enough, the operation was a collab style Avengers: Army, National Guard, FGR and SSPC joining forces to tell the drug trafficker: “Not today, friends”. Of course, the Public Ministry now has the fun task of putting together the thickest investigation folder of the year.
What’s next? Spoiler: it is not a happy ending (for drug traffickers)
Although this blow hurts—especially in the bosses’ wallets—we all know that drug trafficking in Mexico is like a game of Whac-A-Mole: you close one laboratory and three more appear. But hey, 12.8 tons less on the streets is a respite (literally, because that meth was not made for healthy lungs).
Moral? If you are going to invest in an illegal business, it is better to open a taco shop. At least there, when the law falls on you, they confiscate your tops and not 20 years in prison.
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