🇬🇼🇻🇪 Guinea-Bissau police seize over 2 tons of cocaine on plane from Venezuela

Police in Guinea-Bissau have seized 2.63 tons of cocaine found on an airplane that arrived from Venezuela in the West African country's capital, the judicial police said.

Agents confiscated 78 bales of drugs that were smuggled in on a Gulfstream IV aircraft during a raid on Saturday afternoon at Bissau's Osvaldo Vieira International Airport, the police said in a statement.

The aircraft's entire crew of five, including the pilot, was arrested. They included two Mexican nationals as well as citizens of Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil.

The detainees will appear before a regional court on Monday for interrogation, the statement said.

Police said the raid, codenamed "Operation Landing", was carried out in cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre-Narcotics.

Drug smugglers often use West African countries as a transit point to ship cocaine from South America to Europe. The seizure at the weekend is one of the biggest recorded in recent years.

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Maduro to Edmundo Gonzalez :

"I tell you, I have all my respect for the decision you have made."

"I can tell Ambassador González Urrutia that I understand the step he has taken and I respect it. I hope he does well and that he can be sure that his wishes for peace will be fulfilled."

Sailors and fishermen on Margarita Island during the celebration of the Virgen del Valle on Sunday afternoon.

Maria Corina Machado: “I have decided to stay in Venezuela and support the struggle from here, while he does it from outside, which he can now do directly and not digitally.

🇪🇸🇻🇪 Spanish Congress votes on initiative to recognize Edmundo González as the winner of the presidential elections in Venezuela

https://alertas24.com/congreso-espanol-vota-iniciativa-para-recognizer-a-gonzalez-urrutia-ganador-de-las-presidenciales/

🇻🇪🇧🇷Brazilian Air Force intercepted a helicopter from Venezuela carrying nearly 240 kilos of "skunk," a variety of cannabis.

The aircraft was intercepted on Monday afternoon by two Brazilian A-29 Super Tucano fighter planes and an H-60 ​​Black Hawk helicopter as it approached Manaus, the largest city in the Brazilian Amazon, the FAB, which was responsible for the operation together with the Brazilian Federal Police, said in a statement.

Maduro said he is keeping an eye on the presidential debate in the United States: "I would have liked to go to the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, but my plane was stolen in the Dominican Republic."