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Authorities in Paraguay announced on Tuesday the country’s largest drug seizure to date, confiscating over four tons of cocaine. Paraguayan security forces discovered the drugs hidden in sugar sacks within a container at the port of the capital, Asunción, bound for Antwerp in Belgium, according to the anti-drug agency, Senad. The seized cocaine is valued at around €220 million ($240 million), it said. Europe, along with the United States, is the largest market for cocaine originating from the South American countries of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. The route to Europe via Paraguay, Argentina, …

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