Colombia and Ecuador dismantle 5-ton cocaine export ring

Colombian police say the Los Curva crime organization makes more than $2 billion in profits a year from this trade.

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The two countries said a year-long police operation culminated on Saturday with the arrest of Colombian brothers Hader and Dairon Cuero, who headed the Los Curva organization. Hader and Cuero are wanted by the United States on drug trafficking charges.

Colombia is considered the world's leading producer of cocaine, an illegal trade that funds leftist guerrilla groups and criminal gangs.

“The result of this operation is that we prevented the transportation of five tons of cocaine per month,” Colombian National Police deputy director General Nicolas Zapata said at a joint press conference broadcast online on Sunday.

The Ecuadorian police's national director of anti-narcotics investigations, General William Villarroel, added that the organization used speedboats and Mexican-flagged ships to transport drugs to Mexico on maritime routes.

Police say Los Curva worked with Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and gangs in Europe's Balkans. Last year, six Colombians and 22 Ecuadorians were arrested in police operations.

Mai Anh (according to Reuters)

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