Mexico authorities burns 140 tonnes of seized drugs

MEXICO: Authorities in Mexico burned almost 140 tonnes (308,000 pounds) of seized drugs during a number of incinerations across the country.

Mexico’s Attorney General Arely Gomez presided over the incineration of 71 tonnes (156,000 pounds) of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines in Tijuana, on Mexico’s northern border with the United States.

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The stacks of illegal drugs were seized by Mexican authorities (APTN)

Another 68 tonnes (150,000 pounds) of seized drugs, were also burned in eight other cities that same day.

Mexico is currently gripped in a drug war between rival cartels and the government (APTN)

Gomez said that since President Enrique Pena Nieto took office in December 2012, authorities have seized more than 2,539 tonnes (527 thousand pounds) of drugs, and also nine million pills in operations throughout Mexico.