The operational strategic commander of the National Armed Forces (FAN), Hernández Lárez, also referred to the arrest of four people in Zulia, as well as the seizure of two small boats linked to drug trafficking in that region.
Soldiers of the National Armed Forces (FAN) have destroyed 36 aircraft linked to drug trafficking so far in 2022, reported Monday the operational strategic commander of the National Armed Forces (FAN), Domingo Hernández Lárez.
“FAN activates the comprehensive aerospace defense, with its detection and early warning system, disabling the ‘Tancol’ plane number 36 of the year 2022, for invading the Venezuelan geographic space without permission,” the official said in his Twitter account. Twitter.
FANB activates the Venezuelan Comprehensive Aerospace Defense, with its detection and early warning system, disabling the TANCOL Plane number 36 of the year 2022, for invading the Venezuelan geographic space without permission. We will not be a platform for drug trafficking! pic.twitter.com/QlBl6TyE1Q
— GJ. Domingo Hernández Lárez (@dhernandezlarez) November 7, 2022
“Tancol” is an acronym invented by the Executive that does not refer to any specific gang and that means “Colombian armed terrorist drug traffickers.”
“We will not be a platform for drug trafficking,” Hernández Lárez added in his message on Monday, November 7, in which he did not offer details about the place where the aircraft was shot down or about the people who were aboard it.
On Sunday, the military chief reported, on the same social network, that the FANB had “neutralized” another plane “for having surreptitiously entered the national territory without an identification code and disconnected location instruments.”
Likewise, the official announced on Saturday, November 5, the destruction of an aircraft in Apure state (southwest, bordering Colombia), number 34 of the year at that time.
In the first ten months of the year, the Armed Forces disabled 44 runways “prepared by the tancol groups” in the state of Zulia, bordering Colombia, which were used for landing planes linked to drug trafficking, always according to information published by the military institution.
Hernández Lárez also referred this Monday to the arrest of four people in Zulia, as well as the seizure of two small boats “linked to drug trafficking” in that region.
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With information from EFE
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