Mexican Navy Intercepts Drug Shipment to US
The Mexican Navy has intercepted and seized a cocaine shipment bound for the United States.
Not necessarily unusual news. There are reports of illegal drug smuggling and other contraband items confiscated all the time.
Drug cartels are routinely going to great lengths in attempts to conceal their illegal cargo and get stuff across borders. The simple mislabeling boxes doesn’t work anymore.
“40 crates of [ S O A P ], huh? Let’s pop one open and see here…”
Some of the more creative ways include packing narcotics inside sealed beer cans, living room furniture, crates of hollowed out religious statues, the list goes on and on.
Remember that story about the “soiled diapers” stuffed with sausage?
But back to the latest bust by the Mexican Navy. Probably the most creative attempt I have heard yet…
Over a ton of cocaine was stuffed inside 20 frozen shark carcasses. The sharks were gutted, filled with slabs of cocaine, and frozen to be passed off as a shipment of seafood.
When initially discovered by X-rays and drug-sniffing dogs, the crew attempted to convince the Navy officers that the packages were a conserving agent to keep the seafood fresh. Not buying the ruse, the conserving agent was further tested to reveal its true composition.
Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico has been patrolling almost 50,000 federal police and military troops across Mexico in attempts to crush the powerful smuggling cartels’ efforts. However, heavily armed drug traffickers with huge arsenals of grenades and automatic weapons are far being defeated as violence has begun to spill over into U.S. states like Arizona.
Since the Mexican Navy has spilled the beans, it looks like we will have to stick to our normal diversion safe products for now. Our development into the Frozen Diversion Safe Shark carcasses will have to cease. Which is unfortunate, because that would have been pretty cool.
No pun intended.
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Yes, sharks serve multiple purposes, no doubt. And, yes, the drug cartels leave no possible means for bringing drugs into this country untried. However, for every 2 pounds of “illegal” drugs confiscated, it is estimated that 8 pounds finds its way to the streets of the United States.
From the cartels point of view this is simply the cost of doing business, and our “war” is breaking the bank, filling prisons with “mules” instead of the top echelons of the cartels and too often authorities either look the other way or are paid to assist.
The fact is there is a major market. It is called the United States. And as long as there is a market, someone, somewhere will find a way to meet the demands of the market.
And, there are even markets in the most repressive regimes in the world. If the threat of death does not deter, how can one expect the threat of a prison term to be a deterrent.
The lesson of prohibition in the early 20th century in the United States is lost on those who claim that with enough prisons and guards, the drug war can be won. Does anyone know what the word “delusional” means? Human appetites will be fed. The history of man is fraught with attempts to control such social issues and none have truly been effective.
Face it – people do what they wish regardless of the implications. Just look around. If you don’t see it, you are not really looking. Certainly, most people abide by the law, but even they likely have committed some transgression that is legally questionable, and as the old saying goes, “It isn’t illegal if you don’t get caught!”