Colombia seizes 7.6 tonnes of Netherlands-bound cocaine at Cartagena port

Colombian police have seized 7.6 tonnes of cocaine bound for the Netherlands at the port of Cartagena, President Abelardo de la Espriella announced on Tuesday. "The National Police has just achieved the largest cocaine seizure in the port of Cartagena in the last 10 years," he wrote on X. According to Colombia's National Police, the drugs were hidden in powdered panela, an unrefined cane sugar, and were found by its anti-narcotics directorate in an operation coordinated with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). De la Espriella said security forces had seized 132 tonnes of cocaine, worth around $6.1 billion, in his government's first 75 days. "There is no truce against narco-terrorism!