Through the development of offensive operations, authorities They found a laboratory for the processing of cocaine hydrochloride on the Alto Mira and Frontera sector, in a rural area of the municipality of Tumaco, Nariño. The uniformed officers discovered that the surroundings of the place had been equipped with 34 antipersonnel mines hidden in the vegetation to stop the public force.
In the La Bodega village of this area, before the operation, an incident of public order disturbance was recorded with more than 100 residents who, instrumentalized by armed groups, tried to prevent the entry of the uniformed officers. The laboratory would belong to the Iván Ríos criminal structure – Segunda Marquetalia de calls itself the Pacific Guerrilla Coordinator of the FARC dissidents.
“This laboratory, with the capacity to produce between 3 and 4 tons of cocaine hydrochloride per month, would belong to the illegal finance subsystem of the armed groups. The laboratory had an adequate defense system with antipersonnel mines and 17 initiators strategically located to be activated to the soldiers’ entry into the illegal structure,” said General Carlos Alberto Padilla Cepeda, commander of the Joint Stabilization and Consolidation Task Force Hercules.
The complex would be valued at more than $2 billion, and there they manufactured drugs that produced the money with whichthis structure financed its criminal actions against the civilian population and the Public Force in that area of the department of Nariño.
“The uniformed officers found more than 200 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, more than 5,000 gallons of liquid inputs and 200 kilograms of solid inputs, such as potassium permanganate, calcium chloride and other chemical precursors used for the continuous processing of the alkaloid,” said Padilla.
Tools and equipment such as presses were also evident. hydraulics, compressors, microwave ovens, electric pumps and Martians, the latter known for their metallic structure for the distillation of the narcotic. The area was finally neutralized by authorities using explosives.
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