Elements of the National Navy of El Salvador intercepted two vessels transporting a total of 6.68 tons of cocaine and captured six foreigners, as reported this Friday by the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele.
According to the information indicated by the president in his X account, the action – carried out on Thursday – represents “the most forceful blow to drug trafficking in the history of El Salvador”, given that the total shipment amounts to a little more than the 6.60 tons seized last February.
Both vessels were intercepted in the waters of the El Cordoncillo mouth, in the Jaltepeque estuary, the place where most drug seizures have occurred in recent years in the Central American country and which is located between the central departments of San Vicente and La Paz.
On one boat “there were three drug traffickers: two Colombians and one Ecuadorian, who were transporting 3,425 tons of cocaine,” said Bukele, and stressed that “six hours later, in the same area of operation, a second boat was located where three other drug traffickers were traveling (of the same nationalities): two Colombians and one Ecuadorian, who were transporting 3,255 tons of cocaine.”
The drug is valued at “167 million dollars,” added the head of state.
According to the president, “this operation establishes a new national record, exceeding 6.60 tons seized in a single operation on February 13, 2026.”
Bukele pointed out that “with this new blow to international drug trafficking, El Salvador has already accumulated 13,286 tons of cocaine seized so far in 2026, valued at more than 332.15 million dollars” and assured that the authorities of his country continue “to wage war against drug trafficking where they previously operated with total impunity.”
According to official figures, in 2025 drug trafficking seizures totaled a little more than 25 tons of drugs, most of them cocaine, which were valued at more than 618.7 million dollars, while in 2024 more than 17.2 tons valued at 422.7 million were seized.