Honduras disables 35 clandestine airstrips for drug trafficking in 2020

TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran Armed Forces so far this year have destroyed 35 clandestine landing strips used for drug trafficking, a military spokesman said on Monday. Since 2014, when the National Inter-Institutional

Security Force was created, a total of 308 clandestine airstrips have been destroyed, Lt. Jose Coello, a spokesman for the Armed Forces, told local radio. The most recent landing strip was destroyed with explosives in Brus Laguna,

in the northeast department of Gracias a Dios, said the spokesman. As of August this year, Honduran authorities had seized 2,241 kg of cocaine, more than the 2,218 kg seized in the whole year of 2019. (Xinhua)