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Quito, EFE
Ecuador will destroy until next October about twelve tons of drugs that have been seized in different agents since 2016. Diego Tipán, Under Secretary for Citizen Security from the Ministry of the Interior, informed Efe [19659003] The official noted that the destruction operation began on Thursday in the coastal province of Esmeraldas (north), to the border of Colombia.
He explained that the drugs to be destroyed amounted to about tons of cocaine hydrochloride, 33,987 grams of heroin hydrochloride, as well as 2.5 tons of marijuana and over 350,000 grams of cocaine paste and cocaine base
According to Tipán, of Esmeraldas, the process of burning the drug, which will take about three months, will take place in the provinces of Carchi, Santo Domingo de Tsáchilas, Pichincha and El Oro .
El Undersecretary of Public Security noted that after the fire of a ton of drugs on July 16, a similar new action is planned for two tons on July 24, in the same province of Esmeraldas.
He recalled that Executive Decrees 376 and 426, in April and June of last year, ordered the abolition of the Technical Secretariat for the Complete Prevention of Drugs (Seted) whose powers were attributed to the Ministry of Public Health and Ministry Among the skills of this state wallet include "the badignment of control and administration of clbadified substances, subject to control and therefore to the cremation of seized drugs, "said the Interior Ministry in a statement.
According to the institution, the alkaloid that will be destroyed corresponds to the seizures made by the National Police which were intended for domestic traffic and consumption in the country. " The destruction of these controlled substances closes the cycle of prevention of their consumption and their traffic then, in addition to identifying the source (which produces) and the marketing methodology (how it is sold), the possibility of future consumption is eliminated, "he noted.
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