{"id":1887365,"date":"2023-03-15T07:56:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T11:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-massive-drug-submarines-recovered-on-opposite-ends-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T07:58:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T11:58:23","slug":"two-massive-drug-submarines-recovered-on-opposite-ends-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-massive-drug-submarines-recovered-on-opposite-ends-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Massive Drug Submarines Recovered On Opposite Ends Of The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-massive-drug-submarines-recovered-on-opposite-ends-of-the-world%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1887365&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> Two submarines that authorities suspect were used to transport cocaine have been seized by South American and European officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armada.mil.co\/es\/content\/tragico-transporte-alcaloides-en-un-semisumergible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> Officials said this week that they had interdicted a semisubmersible that measured 50 feet in length and contained close to 3 tons cocaine. The vessel was located in the Pacific Ocean. Its price rockets to hundreds of millions of dollars when it hits the streets of America.<\/p>\n<p>Two people aboard the craft were found to be suffering from serious health problems by the Colombian military. They had been exposed to toxic fumes and suffered an accident onboard. Two additional bodies were also found onboard.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Al interior de la embarcaci\u00f3n, fueron hallados dos sujetos en malas condiciones de salud, y dos cuerpos sin vida, al parecer por la inhalaci\u00f3n de gases t\u00f3xicos. Esta operaci\u00f3n evit\u00f3 el ingreso de m\u00e1s de 87 millones de d\u00f3lares a estructuras de organizaciones narcotraficantes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RFfYIvoMu3\">pic.twitter.com\/RFfYIvoMu3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Armada de Colombia (@ArmadaColombia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArmadaColombia\/status\/1634972331406917632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s Civil Guard was on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/03\/14\/spain-drugs-semisubmersible-vessel-cocaine\/4f0c0788-c272-11ed-82a7-6a87555c1878_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Possession<\/a> The submarine was found off the coast in the northwest region of Galicia. Officials believe the vessel may have been carrying cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel was approximately the same size as that found by Colombian Navy in the Pacific. Authorities seized it from below the ocean floor.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish authorities seize a similar vessel that had three tons of cocaine in it and confiscated it in 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Finalmente el sumergible hallado en la zona de  Vilagarc\u00eda de Aurosa (Pontevedra) es traslado al puerto de Xufre.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GEAS?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GEAS<\/a>: Grupo Especial de Actividades Subacu\u00e1ticas de la <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardiacivil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@guardiacivil<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sgBIcCtt6n\">pic.twitter.com\/sgBIcCtt6n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guardia Civil \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 (@guardiacivil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardiacivil\/status\/1635679566004903941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Three countries in northern South America account for most of the cocaine in the world: Colombia and Peru.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia produces the highest amount of cocaine among the three countries. A 2017 estimate suggested that 460,000 acres of Colombia were cultivating coca plants. This is a much greater number than when Pablo Escobar was the Medellin Cartel&#8217;s notorious drug kingpin. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/a-side-effect-of-peace-in-colombia-a-cocaine-boom-in-the-us\/2017\/05\/07\/6fb5d468-294a-11e7-9081-f5405f56d3e4_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia has a high production of cocaine. &#8220;unpicked coca leaves are rotting in the fields,&#8221; The report stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve never seen anything like it before,&#8221; said Luis Carlos Villegas, Colombia&#8217;s defense minister.<\/p>\n<p>In Colombia&#8217;s mangrove swamps, drug cartels often build semi-submersible and submarine craft. The vessel can be built for $1-2 million and is often used once by crew members to transport hundreds of thousands of dollars of cocaine to their destination. The crew usually disposes of the drugs once they have been removed from the vessel.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/two-massive-drug-submarines-recovered-on-opposite-ends-of-the-world\">Two massive drug submarines were recovered at opposite ends of the world<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two submarines authorities believe were used to transport cocaine were discovered and seized by officials this week in Europe and South America. The Colombian Navy said in a statement this week that it interdicted a semi-submersible approximately 50 feet long in the Pacific Ocean that contained nearly 3 tons of cocaine, which officials valued at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1891330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5642,5908,12521,13610],"class_list":["post-1887365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-drug","tag-massive","tag-recovered","tag-submarines"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}