A shipment of Costa Rican bananas was confiscated by Guatemalan authorities in Puerto Quetzal, Escuintla, in the Pacific region of the country, where they found about 40 drug packages hidden in several boxes with the agricultural product. Apparently, the ship’s final destination was the United States.
The confiscated “goods” have a value in the illicit market of nearly 4.1 million quetzales (official currency of Guatemala), around 527 thousand dollars.
As confirmed by the prosecution of that country, the drug was in shipments of bananas traveling in the cold room of the ship.
In recent years, numerous cases have been detected in which drug traffickers use cargoes with export products to transport drugs by sea to other countries. This has happened in Europe and the United States.