The country's navy says the bust is the 'biggest blow to drug trafficking in the country's history.'
A record haul of more than four tonnes of cocaine worth a billion dollars has been seized in Uruguay.
The cocaine was found when four soy flour containers packed with bags of cocaine were seized after showing"anomalies" when passing through scanners at Montevideo's port, according to news agency AFP.
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