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Ecuador will destroy until next October about twelve tons of drugs that have been seized in different agents since 2016, informed Diego Tipán, undersecretary of Citizen Security of Ministry of the Interior . The official said that the destruction operation began last Thursday in the coastal province of Esmeraldas (north), on the border of Colombia.
He explained that the drug to be destroyed corresponds to about eight tons of cocaine hydrochloride, 33,987 grams of heroin hydrochloride, as well as about 2.5 tons of marijuana and over 350,000 grams cocaine paste and cocaine base.
According to Tipán, in addition to Esmeraldas, the process of incineration of the drug – which will take about three hours months – will be developed in the provinces of Carchi, Santo Domingo de Tsáchilas, Pichincha and El Oro .
The Undersecretary of Public Security said that after the fire of one ton of drugs on July 16, a similar new action is planned for two tons on July 24, in the same province of Esmeraldas.
It recalls that in Executive Decrees 376 and 426, last April and June it was decided to abolish the Technical Secretariat for Integrated Drug Prevention (Seted), whose remit was entrusted to the Ministry of Health. Public Health and the Ministry of the Interior.
Among the skills of this state wallet figure the control and administration of the cataloged substances, under control and therefore burning of seized drugs, "said the Ministry of Health. Interior in a statement.
According to the institution, the alkaloid to be destroyed corresponds to the seizures made by the national police, which was intended for international traffic and consumption in the country.
"The destruction of these controlled substances n closes the cycle of prevention of consumption and traffic, since, in addition to identifying the source (which produces) and the marketing methodology (how it is sold), the possibility future consumption is eliminated ", EFE
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