As has been well documents carrots and other vegetables are smuggled from Mexico into villages along the Rio Hondo in the Orange Walk and Corozal
districts. Now that's contraband, but illicit drugs are also smuggled along that river. It's a concern for the BDF which says the US is funding a base
in the Consejo area. The Mexicans say they also want to help:…
H.E. Carlos Quesnel Melendez - Mexican Ambassador to Belize
"We are in talks with the Belizean government on how to provide an agreement of even constructing some facilities to try to help the Belizean
authorities to fight all these criminal, illegal activities."