El Salvador seizes 1.4 tons of cocaine floating in Pacific
Government
SAN SALVADOR El Salvador seized packages containing 1.4 tons of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean, President Nayib Bukele said on Sept. 9, calling it a strike "against international drug trafficking." The shipment was found approximately 1,600 kilometres southwest of El Cordoncillo at the mouth of the Jaltepeque estuary on El Salvador's Pacific coast, he said. The seizure comes as U.S. President Donald Trump has declared war on Latin American drug traffickers and declared cartels "terrorist"
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