MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas say they have confiscated 1,639 coca plants.

The state attorney general’s office says the discovery in Tuxtla Chico near the Guatemalan border came from an anonymous tip that led to a warrant.

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