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$59.1 million, 23 tons of narcotics, 26,400 pounds of cocaine, 16,000 pounds of marijuana, 1,200 pounds of meth, 1.3 million ecstacy pills, 149 vehicles, 3 boats, 3 planes, 169 weapons, and 755 alleged members of the Mexican drug cartel - Sinaloa.  This is the booty of Operation Xcellerator, which has been a collaborative effort of Mexican, US, and Canadian authorities over the past 21 months.  The arrests and seizures were made throughout both the United States (in California, Maryland, and Minnesota) and Mexico.  Authorities claim they found a “super meth lab“, and an ecstacy factory, pumping out 12,000 pills an hour.  

So, Obama announced they are going to use all the non-illegal funds from the seizures and fund after school activities in public schools, to ultimately lessen the demand for the drug trade in the first place.  I’m kidding.  I really am actually wondering what happens to all of this “stuff”.  Does it remain on evidence shelves collecting dust?  

Quite a commendable effort by the international team of drug-busters, and I am sure they feel accomplished.  And of course the biggest winners in this are the three remaining Mexican drug cartels that now are able to move in on the areas that Sinaloa previously operated under.  The Gulf cartel, the Tijuana cartel and the Juarez cartel will now all have one less problem to worry about.  And, I hope and believe this will decrease the violence in Mexico - we can all be happy about that.