U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) crewmembers inspect a self-propelled semi-submersible June 19, 2019, in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Coast Guard crews seized more than 39,000 pounds of cocaine and 933 pounds of marijuana, worth a combined estimated $569 million, through 14 separate suspected drug smuggling interdictions and disruptions off the coasts of Mexico, Central America, and South America by three Coast Guard cutters between May and July 2019.
SUCCESSFUL COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION COME FROM THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIPS Joint Interagency Task Force South protects U.S. and partner nations from illicit drugs.
A unique interagency and international task force is protecting the United States and partner nations from the flow of illicit drugs. Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF South), located at Naval Air Station Key West in Florida, coordinates and conducts detection and monitoring (D&M) operations to facilitate the interdiction
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of illicit trafficking in support of national and partnernation security. Enhanced Counter-Narcotics Operations is a United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM)-led and JIATF South-supported effort to deny transnational criminal organizations the ability to exploit shipment routes for the movement of narcotics, precursor
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BY EDWARD LUNDQUIST
