This result hit the illicit activities of organized armed groups by approximately 38,000 million pesos.
Within the framework of the Ayacucho Plan, decisive military operations were carried out by troops of the Command Against Drug Trafficking and Transnational Threats, CONAT, military unit a of the Air Assault Aviation Division of the National Army, jointly with the Colombian Aerospace Force and coordinated with the National Police; they destroyed five laboratories for the manufacture of illicit substances.
The operations were carried out in the department of Nariño, in the villages of El Balcón, in the municipality of Cumbitara, and in the village of La Barazón, in the municipality of Santacruz. Two laboratories, apparently belonging to the Residual Organized Armed Group (GAO-r) Franco Benavides Structure and the ELN José Luis Company, were destroyed in those places.
The first laboratory contained 2,000 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, 356 gallons of coca paste base in solution, 2370 gallons of liquid precursors and 900 kilograms of solid precursors, and in the second laboratory, 3000 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, 400 kilograms of solid precursors and 2297 gallons of liquid precursors.
In Norte de Santander there were three more laboratories, two in the village of El Porvenir, in the municipality of El Tarra, where 1000 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, 476 kilograms of coca paste base, 2671 gallons of liquid supplies and 1000 kilograms of solid supplies belonging to the ELN Hector Front were found by troops. In the second laboratory, 1552 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, 513 kilograms of coca paste base, 2782 gallons of liquid supplies, 1250 kilograms of solid supplies were found by troops, which would belong to the GAO-r Structure 33.
Finally, in a third laboratory, in the village of El Espíritu Santo, municipality of Ocaña, 581 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, 285 kilograms of coca paste base, 1260 kilograms of solid precursors and 2552 gallons of liquid precursors belonging to the GAO-r Structure 33 were found by troops.
It is estimated that the economic loss to the outlaw groups was more than 38,000 million pesos, a result that complements a line of decisive military operations that have continuously been conducting against the criminal operations of these illegal organizations that find their main source of financing in drug trafficking.
All the material was put into custody of the authority.
Source: Press – National Army
