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Operation Catatumbo celebrates a year of results: institutional presence and security in the Colombian northeast

On the first anniversary of Operation Catatumbo, the Chief of defense of Colombia, General Hugo Alejandro López Barreto, presented a positive report on the strategic deployment in this region.

Colombian Army and the National Police arrested three individuals responsible for installing illegal roadblocks in the Catatumbo region

The three detainees, members of the residual organized armed group (GAO-r) Structure 33, were put into custody of the judicial authorities.

Colombian National Army arrested one person and seized illegal fuel of the GAO ELN, department of Norte de Santander

The Organized Armed Group, GAO, ELN stops receiving about 27 million pesos after the finding of this fuel.

Colombian Military Forces present results in areas of special priority of the military operation in the country

Colombian Military Forces, in compliance with their constitutional mission, have focused efforts on areas of special priority of the military operation, such as the Catatumbo region in the Departme

Colombian National Army deals a blow to the GAO ELN by finding more than 200 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride

So far this year, the troops have dismantled 21 laboratories for cocaine hydrochloride.

Recovery of minors and arrest of a member of the residual GAO, in Tibú, Department of Norte de Santander

There are 26 minors separated of the organized armed groups in Catatumbo. During the military operation, abundant war material and explosives were found by troops.

Operación Catatumbo