In order to contribute to mitigating the risk declared by the Ombudsman's Office through Early Warning 001 of 2025, the Twenty-Seventh Rainforest Brigade carries out continuous and sustained military operations against illegal armed groups that commit crimes in this part of the Colombian Amazonas region.
In compliance with the Ayacucho plus Plan, the Twenty-Seventh Rainforest Brigade, the finding and dismantling of an illegal laboratory for the production of cocaine hydrochloride in the village of El Cocuy, municipality of Ipiales, took place in the department of Nariño.
Based on military intelligence information, the soldiers of the Rainforest Infantry Battalion N° 58 Brigadier General Edgar Alberto Rico Pulido, with the support of helicopters of the Army Aviation and the Aerospace Force of Colombia, dismantled laboratory for the production of Coca Base Paste that apparently belongs to the GAO-r 48 so called Comandos de Frontera National Coordinator Bolivarian Army.
In this structure those in charge of cooking the drug carry out different phases of the production of coca base paste and the crystallization of cocaine hydrochloride. Troops found more than 1300 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride, about 1,200 kilos of coca base paste, more than 2,000 gallons of Cocaine Hydrochloride in solution, more than 3,400 gallons of liquid supplies, 1,050 kilograms of solid supplies, power generators, 17 microwave ovens among other items that were given to the authorities.
This military operation hits the financial structure of these criminal organizations, responsible for homicides, criminal acts and confrontations with other structures specialized in drug trafficking; it in the same way prevented the monthly circulation of more than 9 billion doses of narcotics on the international illegal market, and mitigated the pollution of natural resources in rainforest areas.
Source: Press - Sixth Division
