U.S. Coast Guard, Royal Canadian Navy seize $715-million of cocaine

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Coast Guard officials in the United States and the Royal Canadian Navy are taking in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to download 26.5 tons of cocaine - valued at around $ 715 million - in the Eastern Pacific.

US officials and Canada are discussing drug bans at a press conference in Port Everglades Thursday morning.

In a press release, the agency told the crew of the Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Navy five bullet recovery operations outside of Central, and South America in 27 drug trafficking bans boats. The participants' ships drove the equipment on board the coast guard on board.

The agency said the increased presence in the US and allies in known areas of the transit of drugs in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Basin is part of its strategy, in the Western Hemisphere.