Cash of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) dismantled a camp occupied by the Armed Terrorist Drug Trafficking groups of Colombia (Tancol) in areas of the Atures municipality, Amazonas state, with explosives, weapons and war material.
The information was released by the head of the Strategic Operational Command (Ceofanb), Domingo Hernández Lárez who, through his account on the social network Twitter, explained that through the “Operation Autana 2022FANB occupies occupies Tancol camp in the Atures municipality, seizing a large quantity of explosives, weapons and war supplies».
In the same message, he stressed that Venezuela “will not serve as a platform for drug trafficking or illegal mining.”
He also specified that in the camp They found specifically: «15 cambuches and war materials, C4 explosive, detonating cord, slow fuse, electric detonators, pentolite explosive, weapons, uniforms and other military supplies».
The discovery of the camp belonging to the Tancol groups was the product of the permanent patrolling carried out by the FANB in all cross-border areas of the country, said the Head of Ceofanb.
Hernández Lárez reiterated that Venezuela “is a zone of peace. Foreign military bases or facilities that have military purposes in any way may not be established in it.
FANB active at the borders
These actions carried out by the FANB take place in the cross-border areas of the country, specifically in the states of Táchira, Apure, Zulia and Amazonas. Through the Autana 2022 Bolivarian Shield Operation, military personnel have carried out actions in these entities to patrollingscrutiny, elimination and disable of structures built by the Tancols to carry out their crimes linked to drug trafficking.
These operations are carried out with the premise of completely ending the irregular groups, an order issued by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, who urged the FANB to declare 2022 as the year 100% free of Tancol groups Throughout the national territory.
