{"id":106366,"date":"2020-10-19T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106366"},"modified":"2020-10-19T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:17:12","slug":"first-narco-submarine-caught-after-crossing-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106366","title":{"rendered":"First \u2018Narco-Submarine\u2019 Caught After Crossing the Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1574778573_545585_1574841160_noticia_fotograma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-106367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1574778573_545585_1574841160_noticia_fotograma-500x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1574778573_545585_1574841160_noticia_fotograma-500x282.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1574778573_545585_1574841160_noticia_fotograma-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1574778573_545585_1574841160_noticia_fotograma-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1574778573_545585_1574841160_noticia_fotograma.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You thought these smugglers were ballsy transiting the Caribbean in their little subs. These guys crossed the Atlantic! Arriving in Spain, they were nabbed by the authorities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a craggy bay here early one morning last year, police watched three men clamber from the hatch of a curious vessel barely breaking the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-foot craft slowly sank as the men swam ashore, where officers grabbed two of them. Police struggled for two days to tow their waterlogged quarry to port, where they found roughly 3 metric tons of cocaine onboard, worth some $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, they had captured a formidable vessel in drug runners\u2019 flotilla: a trans-Atlantic \u201cnarco-submarine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South America is awash with cocaine, and traffickers are turning to new ways of getting it to Europe, which the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says may have surpassed the U.S. as the world\u2019s largest market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More at the source. It&#8217;s probably behind a paywall, so open in an incognito tab. Source; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/inside-the-first-narco-submarine-caught-after-crossing-the-atlantic-11603033200?st=lr2ifw8rhjk0ygk&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You thought these smugglers were ballsy transiting the Caribbean in their little subs. These guys crossed &hellip; <a title=\"First \u2018Narco-Submarine\u2019 Caught After Crossing the Atlantic\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106366\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First \u2018Narco-Submarine\u2019 Caught After Crossing the Atlantic<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-criminals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106368,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106366\/revisions\/106368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}