A megalaboratory to produce two tons of cocaine a month that would cost more than five billion pesos, and the finding of one and a half tons of marijuana are the recent blows dealt against the illicit finances of the Dagoberto Ramos dissidents.
The frontal fight against drug trafficking continues in the department of Cauca. Troops of the Specific Command of Cauca, jointly with the Colombian Aerospace Force, have found in the village of Santa Ana, municipality of Santander de Quilichao, a cocaine production megalaboratory. Two tons of coca base paste were found by troops there, a structure that would be valued at more than 5000 million pesos.
This narcotic was ready to be processed and illegally marketed by the illegal armed groups that commit crimes in the north of the department. In addition, 2500 gallons of fuel, 2 tons of chopped coca leaf and solid precursors for the production of the drug were found by troops at this site. It should be noted that this laboratory would have the capacity to produce 2 tons of cocaine, being one of the illegal economic complexes of the GAO-r Dagoberto Ramos.
Almost 24 hours after this first operation, the Army troops, through a checkpoint on the road that connects the villages of Corinto and Miranda, intercepted a truck in which a ton and a half of creepy type marijuana, valued at about 2000 million pesos, was being transported. As far as it could be established, this drug would in the same way belong to the GAO-r Dagoberto Ramos.
The driver of the vehicle was arrested and put into custody of the authorities, as well as the material found.
With these two results, the illicit finances of the illegal armed groups that commit crimes in the north of Cauca continue to be hit hard. Colombian National Army will continue to carry out operations in order to weaken drug trafficking and its exit routes in the southwest of the country.
Source: Press Third Division of Colombian National Army
