What seemed like a routine procedure for the Military Forces became a hostile attack to prevent the neutralization of a complex belonging to the criminal structure Iván Ríos -Segunda Marquetalia- of the self-proclaimed Pacific Guerrilla Coordinator. In the area, a mined area with explosives was neutralized.
And through the development of offensive operations, framed in the Joint Strategic Campaign Plan Ayacucho – Time 2 – units of the Joint Task Force Hercules, located a laboratory for the processing of cocaine hydrochloride in the Alto Mira and Frontera sector. , rural area of the municipality of Tumaco, Nariño.
During the approach maneuver, the uniformed officers discovered that the surroundings of the place had been equipped with elements to stop the advance of the authorities. This is how they found 34 antipersonnel mines which had been installed and were hidden in the middle of the vegetation in the area, becoming a dangerous trap not only for the Public Force, but also for the civilian population.
The 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 criminal structure Iván Ríos – Segunda Marquetalia of the self-proclaimed Pacific Guerrilla Coordinator of the FARC dissidents.
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The events occurred in the La Bodega neighborhood, where a combat encounter began against members of this criminal structure who were guarding the illegal complex, who, seeing themselves overwhelmed, had to remove all the elements and precursors used to prepare the alkaloid. along the Mira River, which serves as a strategic mobility corridor for these criminals.
Likewise, they instrumentalized the civilian population, gathering between 100 and 200 residents to interrupt the operational work of the Military Forces, aimed at the destruction of this illegal complex.
Consistent with the above, during the area search it was possible to identify that this laboratory for the production of cocaine hydrochloride had an adequate defense system with 34 antipersonnel mines and 17 initiators strategically located to be activated when the soldiers entered the structure. illegal.
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.
In addition, tools and equipment were evident such as hydraulic presses, compressors, microwave ovens, electric pumps and martians, the latter known in this way for their metallic structure, made up of two antennas and used for the distillation of the narcotic.
This complex would be valued at more than two billion pesos, money with which 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 area where the events occurred, the Hercules Joint Task Force continues its operational deployment with the objective of tracking and locating more complexes for drug processing and thus continue weakening the logistical and criminal structures of the FARC dissidents.
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