They skim over the water at over 110 km/h, surfing on the waves, with the bow making playful leaps. Since the 90s, they were responsible for introducing hashish from Morocco. Now the narcolanches also carry cocaine that arrives in the Iberian Peninsula through Africa. The National Police and the Civil Guard have already seized some of these vessels. The officers thought there was hashish, and the bales, in reality, carried white powder. "The speedboats are increasingly carrying more cocaine," admits Lisardo Capote, head of the Customs Surveillance Service (SVA) in the Campo de Gibraltar.

The Pentagon launched another deadly attack early this morning against a vessel in the Caribbean that was allegedly carrying narcotics, killing four men. The U.S. Southern Command announced the attack in a statement, claiming that the "lawful kinetic strike" was carried out against a ship "operated by a designated terrorist organization." "Intelligence services confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting a known drug trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed," the statement, released via social media, added. This marks the 22nd attack carried out by the U.S. military against vessels in the Caribbean and the Pacific, bringing the death toll in this "campaign" to at least 87 since the attacks began in September.

The Civil Guard arrested this Sunday the fourth and final crew member of the drug boat that rammed a Civil Guard vessel in the port of Barbate (Cádiz) on February 9 of last year. and caused the death of two guardsAccording to a police statement, this latest arrest complements the other arrests made in November in the same case. The now detained man went missing after the crime and had an international arrest warrant. Finally, officers located him in the province of Cádiz. This action concludes months of investigation. The man will be brought before a court tomorrow, Monday, according to the statement. The Andalusian Mail.