A joint Ministry of the Interior operation in Guantánamo province detained one person carrying hashish while he travelled on an intermunicipal bus.[1] The interception happened aboard a Yutong bus covering the Baracoa to Guantánamo route.[2] The man, a Baracoa resident, was stopped at the El Bagá police checkpoint in the municipality of San Antonio del Sur.[1] Witnesses said a drug-detection dog taking part in the checkpoint found the drug, identified as hashish, a cannabis derivative.[1]
The detainee was already serving a sentence for drug trafficking and was on temporary prison leave when he was stopped again.[1] The officialist profile Guantánamo y su verdad reported that he was already sanctioned for drug trafficking, so the new detention came while he held a prison benefit.[1]
Both outlets place the case within Cuba’s official Zero Tolerance campaign against drug trafficking, promoted as #ContraLasDrogasSeGana.[1] The detention and its disclosure through officialist channels were presented as reaffirming the state’s hard line on drug use and trafficking, including the synthetic cannabinoids known in Cuba as químico and papelillo, which are not part of this case.[1] The second outlet linked the case to a wider judicial offensive of exemplary sentences and to tighter controls at entry points and on intermunicipal transport.[2]
