Troops of the Command Against Drug Trafficking and Transnational Threats, a unit a of the Air Assault Aviation Division of Colombian National Army, carried out a joint and coordinated military operation, in the village of Puerto Las Palmas, municipality of Tibú, Norte de Santander. There was the controlled destruction of a laboratory for the production of cocaine hydrochloride, where approximately one ton of the illicit substance was seized, valued at USD 32 million, more than 1440 gallons in production process, which had a cost of more than USD 46 million, as well as a large amount of liquid and solid precursors. These operations strike the illegal activities of the residual organized armed group Structure 33.
The impact for the world with the destruction of this laboratory is that more than 3 tons of cocaine hydrochloride will not produce per month, which had an approximate cost of USD 96 million; with this, the distribution of more than 6 million doses is prevented, saving 759,000 lives.
