| Vast Hauls of Seized Drugs Incinerated by Authorities Across Mexico Vin Shahrestani - The Telegraph | |
| go to original August 19, 2015 |
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Authorities in Mexico burned almost 308,000 pounds of seized drugs during a number of incinerations across the country.
Mexico's Attorney General Arely Gomez presided over the incineration of 156,000 pounds of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines in Tijuana, on Mexico's northern border with the United States.
Another 150,000 pounds of seized drugs, were also burned in eight other cities that same day.
Gomez said that since President Enrique Pena Nieto took office in December 2012, authorities have seized more than 527,000 pounds of drugs, and also nine million pills in operations throughout Mexico.
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