San José de Cúcuta, May 17, 2019. In compliance with the Bicentenary campaign plan “Héroes de la Libertad” troops belonging to the Vulcano Task Force find and dismantle in the rural area of Tibú and Teorama, in the department of Norte de Santander, a coca base paste laboratory and an illegal refinery belonging to the Organized Armed Group GAO-Eln.
In the first operation carried out in the village of Guachiman, municipality of Tibú soldiers of the National Army, found a laboratory, in which members of the GAO-Eln, front Juan Fernando Porras Martínez, stored 70 kilos of coca leaf, 320 gallons of oil and 14 metallic barrels.
Parallel to these operations in the village Ventanas, municipality of Teorama, an illegal refinery for the production of fuels was found. In the place the soldiers found 1.607 gallons of refined gasoline (pategrillo), 50 kilograms of lime, three rudimentary distillation devices, 77 barrels of different sizes and four storage pools.
The precursors and machinery found would have a cost of approximately 60 million pesos, an economic impact that hits the financial capacity of this Organized Armed Group in different sectors of the El Catatumbo region.
Source: Vulcano Task Force
