A total of 61 laboratories that were used by illegal armed groups for drug processing, were deactivated this year by members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (Fanb), after a deployment in the states of Zulia and Apure.
This was reported yesterday by the Strategic Operational Commander of the Fanb, G/J Domingo Hernández Lárez.
“The Fanb deactivated and destroyed 61 laboratories on the borders of the Apure and Zulia states, dedicated to the processing of cocaine hydrochloride, by the Tancol groups during the year 2022,” he wrote on Twitter.
Likewise, Lárez highlighted that the military organization has been deployed “permanently in the South of the Lake, disabling the illegal lanes that the invading groups persistently and stubbornly try to repair to extract their products using Our Territory as a platform.”
He added that with the “42nd Parachute Infantry Brigade, patrolling the Cuyuní River was carried out in defense of Our Sovereignty.”
In addition, the URRA Infantry Units toured “our border axes in protection of citizen guarantees,” Lárez added.
Since the end of 2021, the Fanb increased its security operations throughout the national territory, especially in the border regions with the aim of combating Colombian drug trafficking groups.
So far in 2022, the Fanb seized more than 40,000 kilograms of drugs through the deployment of various security operations throughout the national territory. The Venezuelan government rejected in September that the United States included Venezuela in the list of countries that do not cooperate against drug trafficking, considering that it lacks legality.
