Southcom: Hundreds of Tons of Cocaine Flowing into U.S. from South America

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Some 560 tons of cocaine were seized in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean since 2016 and the massive haul represents a fraction of the illicit drug smuggled into the United States, according to the head of a Southern Command anti-drug task force.
"That was just a drop in the bucket of what we were able to detect," said Coast Guard Rear Adm. Christopher Tomney, director of Southcom's Joint Interagency Task Force-South, a multi-agency, international counter drug unit based in Key West, Fla.
The drug flow has increased in recent years due to a jump in production in South America, mainly from Colombia and Ecuador, two main supply states.