Weekly Report - 11 October 2007 (INNS 1741-7422)

MEXICO | Drugs. The government said that it intercepted almost 12t of cocaine in Tamaulipas on 5 October. The seizure means that the government has now intercepted 22t of cocaine this year: in the whole of 2006 it intercepted 21.3t. The army, apparently acting on a tip-off, raided a warehouse in Tamaulipas and found 10,541 packets of cocaine weighing 11.72t. Seven people were arrested in the raid. The cocaine most likely belongs to the Gulf gang which tends to ship drugs into the US along the east coast of Mexico. At the beginning of this year, the government extradited the head of the Gulf gang, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, to the US.

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