Highway robbery on the decline; vigilance continues in four priority stretches of the country / @lopezobrador_ @GobiernoMX >>>

#GobiernoDeMéxico.- Between December 2023 and January 2024, highway robbery fell by 1.09 percent, which is why the National Guard’s vigilance continues in order to contain this crime, affirmed the Secretary of the Navy, José Rafael Ojeda Durán.

In response to the demands of users and carriers, the Mexican Government maintains the deployment of 210 troops and 107 vehicles on four priority highway stretches: Mexico-Queretaro, Arco Norte, Amozoc-Perote and Nochixtlán-Cuacnopalan.

In addition, security personnel prevent crimes such as highway robbery on federal and state highways in ten priority states: State of Mexico, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Tlaxcala and Veracruz, he said at a morning press conference with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Armed Forces prevent production and sale of synthetic drugs

During the joint report from February 20 to March 4, the head of the Navy highlighted the destruction of 2,445 clandestine methamphetamine laboratories from December 2018 to date, which has prevented more than 8,290.8 tons of that drug from reaching the streets. These actions affected the financing of organized crime by more than 2 billion pesos.

The Armed Forces prevented the sale of 645,351.3 kilograms of methamphetamines so far this administration and seized 8,206.9 kilograms of fentanyl.

They maintain cocaine and marijuana seizures, as well as poppy eradication; between December 1, 2018 and March 4, 2024, they eliminated 436,379 crops.

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