The laboratory would have a monthly production of up to 15 kilograms of coca base paste valued at more than 45 million pesos. According to military intelligence, the drug would be transported using mobility routes of the municipality of San José del Guaviare to the interior of the country or to the neighboring country of Venezuela by river routes.
In territorial control military operations, troops of the Infantry Battalion No. 21 Batalla Pantano de Vargas, of the National Army, in an inter-institutional work with the Attorney General's Office, found a coca base paste production laboratory in the village Costa Rica, rural area of the municipality of Mapiripán, in Meta.
The finding of the laboratory, apparently belonging to the residual Organized Armed Group, GAO-r, Structure First, was successful thanks to a follow-up of more than 30 days. It was possible to identify that the difficult access laboratory, and required an immediate troops mobilization, therefore a security operation was established according to the complexity of the area.
In the operation, more than 170 gallons of liquid precursors were found, including gasoline, diesel and sulfuric acid. In the same way, more than 100 kilograms of solid precursors, such as lime, fertilizer and ammonia, and other materials used in the production of drug production were found. This laboratory would be valued at about 15 million pesos.
It is important to highlight that this laboratory would have a monthly production capacity of 15 kilograms of coca base paste which, valued abroad, could cost up to 225 thousand dollars and in Colombian pesos would represent approximately 855 million. This operations helps to significantly hit one of the main illicit income of the residual GAO by reducing its ability to commit terrorist acts against civilians and the Security forces.
Source: National Army - News Agency
