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2026 Global drug, migration & trafficking crackdown

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Mid‑June seizures in Venezuela and July interdictions by Guyana, Ecuador, Peru and Sri Lanka kept regional drug and contraband flows under pressure. Ecuador’s anti‑kidnapping operation freed hostages and arrested members of Los Choneros and the R7 Mafia, while joint river and maritime patrols with the United States continued in the Pacific corridor. Authorities also broadened actions to target migration and human‑trafficking networks. On 15 July, Mexican Secretary of Public Security Gilberto Loya Chávez chaired the inaugural Border Violence Protocol meeting at Torre Centinela, reviewing recent security outcomes and showcasing the facility’s technology‑driven, a technology‑driven rapid‑response approach. Ghana’s Narcotics Control Commission confirmed that the five‑million‑tablet tramadol an intelligence‑led bust of five million tramadol tablets at Kotoka International Airport was intelligence‑led, Airport, valued at roughly GH¢100 million (≈US$9.6 million) and linked to three arrested suspects, underscoring highlighting a wider West‑African trafficking network. In Sri Lanka, customs detained a foreign woman after finding with cocaine worth about Rs 10 million at Bandaranaike Airport, and million; Kuwait’s customs seized 104 pieces of marijuana pieces hidden in Thai dates, arresting a Sri Lankan national. Guyana’s Customs Anti‑Narcotics Unit reported record‑breaking seizures for the first half of 2026: 519.49 2026—519.49 kg of drugs—including cannabis, cocaine, crystal methamphetamine and ecstasy—plus drugs, 35 firearms and 699 rounds of ammunition, a 272 % rise over the same period in 2025. Coordinated busts across the Indian Ocean region continued into late July. In July, including arrests in Kathmandu, two Indian women were stopped with 8 kg of marijuana; an Indian national was arrested Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Thiruvananthapuram. Later in Nepal’s Madhesh province July, U.S. Coast Guard assets partnered with 243 g the Royal Bahamas Defence Force to interdict two vessels near the Bahamas. On 25 July, cutter Charles Sexton seized about 1,080 kg of brown‑sugar‑type cocaine; marijuana valued at Sri Lanka’s Bandaranaike Airport US$2.8 million and transferred three suspects to Bahamian authorities. Two days later, a 79‑year‑old Spanish engineer was caught with 2.2 kg joint OPBAT‑Royal Bahamas operation stopped a sailing vessel near Norman’s Cay, finding 54 Haitian nationals, 21 lb of cocaine and two Maldivian men were seized with 602 g marijuana and 10.67 g 26 lb of methamphetamine respectively; cocaine, arresting four Haitians and in Thiruvananthapuram, Indian police confiscated over 100 g of MDMA from a fleeing youth. Further expanding the global scope, turning the U.S. remaining migrants over to immigration.

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  1. 2026-07-31 16:06 UTC 2026 Global drug, migration & trafficking crackdown
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