The vice president of Sector of Political Sovereignty, Security and Peace, Vladimir Padrino López, informed that the General Staff of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), Through the operation “Catatumbo Lightning” Throughout the Venezuelan border with Colombia, it has dismantled 17 camps of irregular groups.
“In the municipalities Colón, Semprún, Catatumbo and García de Hevia of the Táchira state; We have dismantled bedroom camps, drug processing, logistics and storage of chemical precursors; In addition, the destruction of two illegal tracks, 27 vehicles and 655 kilos of cocaine, ”said Padrino López, while highlighting the humanitarian support of the national government to the more than 2,000 people who have fled violence in Colombia.
The operation “Catatumbo Lightning” was launched last Friday throughout the Venezuelan border with Colombia and, which covers about “10 thousand square kilometers” with the purpose of protecting sovereignty and territorial integrity before these groups that operate in The neighboring country, said the military source.
Advances in the Ayacucho Plan
Padrino López explained that, on the advances of the Ayacucho Plan, “all the lines of action emanating by President Nicolás Maduro for the new stage of the Armed Forces.”
“Let’s go with everything, a plan that allows us A level of validity in every way so that the fanb has an accurate path of advance and new successes and victories, ”he said.
