U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Francisco Acevedo, assigned to the medium endurance cutter USCGC Vigorous (WMEC 627), stacks bales of cocaine during a drug offload Nov. 15, 2013, in Port Everglades, Fla. Forty-one bales of cocaine weighing more than 2,600 pounds were seized during two interdictions carried out as part of Operation Martillo. Martillo is a joint, interagency and multinational collaborative effort to deny transnational criminal organizations air and maritime access to the littoral regions of the Central American isthmus.