“What seemed like a routine procedure for the Military Forces turned into a hostile riot,” thus begins the complaint of the soldiers who were trying to destroy a cocaine laboratory in the Second Marquetalia amid gunfire from guerrillas and the reproach of the civilian population in Tumaco, Nariño.
The production center is valued at 2,000 million pesos and had the capacity to produce four tons of hydrochloride in one month, equipped with hydraulic presses, compressors, microwave ovens, electric pumps and antennas. Apparently, the profits from this business financed crime throughout the region.
The authorities discovered this space on the La Bodega sidewalk and set out to dismantle it. Firstly, they found 34 antipersonnel mines that were planted underground in the vicinity of the laboratory, a dangerous trap set by the Iván Ríos structure, to prevent access by the troops.
In the middle of the approach, A combat encounter began with the supposed guerrillas who were guarding the space. Faced with pressure from the troops and finding themselves overwhelmed, they had no choice but to throw all the elements they used to make the alkaloid into a river, but it was not their only action.
The institution denounced this Saturday, April 27, that the criminals had instrumentalized the civilian population to stop the operation: “They gathered between 100 and 200 residents to interrupt the work of the Military Forces aimed at the destruction of this illegal complex.”
The hypothesis of the National Army is that the criminal operation was carried out by the Second Marquetalia, which has an important presence in the sector: “This criminal structure financed its criminal actions against the civilian population and the public force in this area of the department of Nariño.”.
In the village of La Bodega, in Tumaco (Nariño), the Joint Task Force Hercules continues to be present, with the purpose of tracking and locating more complexes destined for drug processing and thus weakening the logistical structures of the FARC dissidents. led by alias Iván Márquez.
WEEK He learned that the civilian population took a good part of the material that the troops found in the production center and, when they left, the uniformed personnel could only demolish the structure.
