A submarine with drugs weighing more than 3 tons was detained in Venezuela.

Venezuelan security officials detained a submarine carrying more than 3 tons of cocaine. This was announced on July 17 by the Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello.

"We captured four people of Colombian nationality who were tasked with rescuing a drug cache that arrived on a drug submarine...> there were 3,075 kg of cocaine in there — 3 tons of cocaine," the local Telesur TV channel quoted him as saying.

According to Cabello, the boat was heading from Colombia to Venezuela.

He stressed that the detention of the drug boat was a severe blow to drug trafficking and terrorism, since the money received from the sale of prohibited substances is used in the future to commit terrorist acts, including. According to the TV channel, in the first half of this year, the country's authorities have already seized 31 tons of drugs.

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On July 10, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo announced that a ship with 2.5 tons of cocaine worth $35 million had been detained in the camp. It was clarified that this was the largest seizure of contraband in 2025.