Illicit transactions are made along the border towns with American drug addicts as well as pedlars. Arrangements are then made for the smuggling of the narcotics into the United States. These traffickers are the most dangerous. They have money, associates, connexions, automobiles, machine-guns, and are fearless and shrewd in their efforts to outsmart the federal police. In 1962, approximately 389 hectares of poppy fields were destroyed.
Evidence is in the sacks and the truck.
To locate these fields, aeroplanes and helicopters are used. Plans are discussed in detail and the following day agents and soldiers in jeeps drive as close as possible to the fields, for the purpose of arresting the cultivators, if they are found, and destroying the poppy fields. In the most inaccessible areas, the aeroplanes and helicopters guide the land squad in the location of the fields. It is a dangerous task, not only owing to the natural risks taken, but sometimes to the aggressive nature of the cultivators. 3.795 Cocaine 6 Opium seeds 37 Marihuana seeds 8 In March, April and May of 1962, the campaign to detect and destroy the illicit plantations and to arrest the cultivators was carried out by agents of the Federal Judicial Police.