In the coastal province of Esmeraldas (on the border with Colombia), Ecuador seized around 1.5 tons of cocaine hydrochloride that was going to be transported to Mexico by sea, Col. Pablo Santos, the police commander in that jurisdiction, announced on 7 January.
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