The illegal complexes, apparently owned by GAO Eln, are valued at approximately 55 million pesos. They were found in the villages El Retiro and Orú Siete in the municipality of Tibú.
Troops of the Vulcano Task Force, of the Second Division, dismantled two illicit substances laboratories in the rural area of the municipality of Tibú, allegedly belonging to the GAO-Eln Organized Armed Group that commits crimes in the region of El Catatumbo
The first military operation was reported in two areas of the department of Norte de Santander. The first operation took place in the sector known as El Retiro village in the municipality of Tibú, where troops of Artillery Battalion No. 30 'Batalla de Cúcuta', found hidden among the weed an illegal structure that produced coca base paste. In there members of the Eln, front 'Luis Enrique León Guerra', stored 110 gallons of coca base in process, 55 gallons of refined gasoline (pategrillo), 25 kilos of urea, 20 kilos of lime and 4 metal barrels of 55 gallons each.
In the same way, in the village Orú Siete, of the same municipality, the second military operation was carried out. There, the soldiers dismantled the second structure where 220 gallons of liquid precursors and eight plastic barrels were used for the manufacture of the alkaloid; in the same it was property of the same organized Armed Group, the Eln.
The two laboratories, appraised approximately 55 million pesos, were dismantled by the troops, thus neutralizing the criminal operations of the GAO - Eln and its related structures, thereby causing irreversible damage to its illegal activities.
Source: Vulcano Task Force
