While police have heightened their operations in the Free Zone, is there more being done to stop smuggling? One Honduran media, Plaza Publica, reported that much of the region's smuggled cigarettes - particularly ones from Asia - are coming out of Corozal and Benque Free Zones. The report also says that this smuggling generates massive funding for organized crime.
Musa said it would require collaboration to combat it.
Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"When you look at the operations of the, I could say this I presume, the cartel operations in Quintana Roo, there are several different layers to that of course there's the human trafficking, human smuggling layer, there's the importation of cannabis and there's activities in the Free Zone so all of these various trades, cross border trades, would result in some sort of collaboration with local networks and that would be our responsibility to ensure that we are targeting these individuals locally, who are or may be networked along with the cartels."
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