A new riot was denounced by the Colombian Military Forces. According to the institution, the events were recorded in the Alto Mira and Frontera sector, a rural area of the municipality of Tumaco, in the department of Nariño, where at the point of machetes and sharp weapons, the community tried to prevent the advance of the troops. .
“What seemed like a routine procedure for the Military Forces became a hostile attack to prevent the neutralization of a complex belonging to the Iván Ríos-Segunda Marquetalia criminal structure,” the institution reported.
According to the Military Forces, the events occurred during a routine procedure framed in the Ayacucho Joint Strategic Campaign Plan -Time 2-, in which Units of Joint Task Force Hercules located a cocaine hydrochloride processing laboratory.
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The institution indicated that the laboratory, with the capacity to produce between 3 and 4 tons of cocaine hydrochloride per month, would allegedly be linked to the illegal finance subsystem of the Iván Ríos faction of the Second Marquetalia, of the self-proclaimed Pacific Guerrilla Coordinator of the FARC dissidents.
“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 When they were overwhelmed, they had to remove all the elements and precursors used to make the alkaloid through the Mira River.which serves as a strategic mobility corridor for these criminals,” the Military Forces reported.
Thus, after the combat, during the search of the area where the laboratory was located, the uniformed officers found that, in an attempt to prevent passage through the area, the group outside the law had installed 34 antipersonnel mines and 17 initiators, which according to the Armed Forces, were strategically deployed to be activated upon entry of the soldiers..
The Military Forces also denounced that the armed group He would have instrumentalized between 100 and 200 residents to interfere with military operations.
According to the institution, “The people carried machetes, sharp weapons and were hooded”.
Once the anti-personnel mines were overcome, and the riot was controlled, in the laboratory inspection, the uniformed They found more than 200 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, along with more than 5,000 gallons of liquid supplies and 200 kilograms of solid materials used in the manufacture of the narcotic, including potassium permanganate, calcium chloride, among other chemical precursors.
The operation also found specialized equipment for the production of cocaine, such as hydraulic presses, compressors, microwave ovens, electric pumps and devices known as “martians”, used for the distillation of the illegal substance due to its distinctive metallic structure.
According to the Military Forces, “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.”
At the time, the Military Forces reported that in the area where the events occurred, the Joint Task Force Hercules maintains its operational deployment in the region, with the purpose of locating more facilities intended for drug processing and, in this way, impact significantly in the logistical and operational capabilities of the FARC dissidents.
The most recent operation of which there was knowledge had been registered in the last hours in the south of the department of Cauca on the border with the department of Putumayo, where the Military Forces found 197 explosive devices. The material, which apparently belonged to the FARC dissidents, was prepared to be launched from drones against the civilian population and the Public Force..
