Wednesday July 15, 2009, 2:38 am
Mexico's navy has seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen sharks, as drug gangs under military pressure go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States.

Armed and masked navy officers cut open more than 20 shark carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a container ship in a container port in the southern Mexico state of Yucatan, the navy and Mexican media said on Tuesday.

"We are talking about more than a tonne of cocaine that was inside the ship," Navy Commander Eduardo Villa told reporters after X-ray machines and sniffer dogs helped uncover the drugs. "Those in charge of the shipment said it was a conserving agent but after checks we confirmed it was cocaine," he said.

Drug gangs are coming up with increasingly creative ways of getting drugs into the United States — in sealed beer cans, religious statues and furniture — as Mexico's military cracks down on the cartels moving South American narcotics north.

President Felipe Calderon has sent 45,000 troops and federal police across Mexico to try to crush powerful smuggling cartels. But traffickers armed with a huge arsenal of grenades and automatic weapons are far from defeated, worrying Washington as violence spills over into U.S. states like Arizona.

Wednesday July 15, 2009, 3:26 am
Even more animal abuse. Thanks Claudia

Wednesday July 15, 2009, 3:49 am
thanks claudia

Wednesday July 15, 2009, 4:52 am
I am so glad they caught this. Thanks Claudia.

Wednesday July 15, 2009, 7:55 am
:( Seriously very troubling... Thanks Claudia!

Wednesday July 15, 2009, 8:59 am
Thanks Claudia!

Wednesday July 15, 2009, 10:25 am
noted this another thing that shoud be stoped

Wednesday July 15, 2009, 10:56 am
Just great. We really need this here now! Sick of this kind of people!

Wednesday July 15, 2009, 3:46 pm
It is great but sometimes I feel that we are trying to kill a small group of ants outside the anthill. Anyways, good news :-) Thanks Claudia.

Wednesday July 15, 2009, 7:39 pm
Truly sick and most disturbing..
Thanks Claudia..
Noted..

Thursday July 23, 2009, 11:13 am
Good news this effort was caught. But there must be much much more to support the Mexican cartels.

Saturday July 25, 2009, 2:11 pm
This does not surprise me as smugglers will do whatever they can to transport drugs, even at the expense of animals suffering. So glad they were caught and thanks Claudia for sharing.

Wednesday August 5, 2009, 10:13 pm
OK, now this is disgusting! What the hell. And what's next on the agenda of animal abuse so they can be criminal in making that $$! Smugglers have used just about everything, person and animal to do their dirty filthy work!
Tks dear Claudia