A joint operation conducted by the Colombian National Army and the Colombian Air Force, coordinated with the National Police and coordinated with the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the Prosecutor General's Office, led to this decisive operation in Samaniego, Nariño, against the Organized Armed Group, GAO in Spanish, Eln.
Thanks to the military intelligence work carried out in recent weeks in southwestern Colombia, troops of the 23rd Brigade, a unit of the Third Division of the National Army, with the support of the Anti-Drug Trafficking Brigade, reached La Planada, municipality of Samaniego , where they found the largest cocaine hydrochloride production laboratory in the department of Nariño.
This complex had 12 rustic structures; inside they had three “Martians” (rudimentary distillation towers), an electricity generator, a hydraulic press, five microwave ovens and a vacuum dryer, in addition to some chemical precursors for drug production, such as gasoline, acetone, cement, urea and lime.
This laboratory would in the same way have the capacity to produce about three tons per week of this narcotic, which would charge about 15,000 million pesos, money with which short and long-range weapons would be acquired, in order to attack the security forces.
Air patrols carried out by the Colombian Air Force and the National Army, in addition to monitoring by the National Police and the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps), led to this result directly hitting the finances of the Jaime Toño Obando company, of the GAO - ELN, which has interference in municipalities of the Nariño mountain range zone, especially in Policarpa, Cumbitara and Samaniego.
Source: National Army News Agency
