EXTRA : Mexico Destroys More Than a Ton of Cocaine
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — The federal attorney general’s office has destroyed more than 1 1/2 tons of cocaine in the last two months, the government newspaper El Nacional reported Wednesday. It said that the bulk came from a single case.
The cocaine was burned as part of the campaign against drug trafficking in Mexico, considered a major source of drugs for the United States.
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