Armed people guard the island 24 hours a day. The cocaine boats entered by night into these estuaries and unloaded their illicit cargo, later to be sent North to the US in small airplanes. An authentic journalist, he refuses the payment and continues his investigations.
Divisions emerge within the Mexican federal government.
The Armed Forces begin more aggressive patrolling of the waters along the Caribbean coast of Quintana Roo. Smaller and competing cocaine traffickers begin to switch their routes from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean. They speak out against the official attacks on freedom of the press. These non-biodegradable products are the same brands as those found on seized Colombian shark boats used to transport cocaine. The judge didn't buy it and ruled against the federal protectors of cocaine trafficking.