Overview
- In a report presented May 27, the Navy (SEMAR) said its maritime campaign has secured 71.4 tonnes of cocaine and, in nine operations over the last eight weeks, interdicted 77 vessels, seized 149,171 liters of fuel and detained 249 people including 96 foreigners.
- SEMAR also reported the arrest of 3,704 so-called 'priority targets' and named four regional operators captured, while land operations in coastal states led to more than 18,000 additional detentions and the dismantling of meth labs and illicit crop sites.
- Port and airport operations yielded roughly 2.1 tonnes of cocaine, more than 9 tonnes of marijuana, 3.3 tonnes of methamphetamine and over 332 tonnes of chemical precursors used for synthetic drugs, officials said.
- The Defense Department (SEDENA) supplied complementary totals, reporting 42,766 detentions, 22,413 weapons seized and 192.7 tonnes of drugs as part of the broader security effort.
- Authorities credit expanded assets and modernization—79,204 naval personnel, 130 ships, 47 aircraft, dozens of drones and new domestically produced systems—with degrading criminal logistics and revenue, and they note the figures are official government claims that have not been independently verified.