General-in-Chief Domingo Hernández Lárez, Operational Strategic Commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (Ceofanb), reported this Friday the discovery of 78 packages of high-purity cocaine weighing 2,260 kg in the Catatumbo Edo municipality. Zulia.
During a press conference, he highlighted that Venezuela has increased in 39.69% drug seizureas well as the operational performance that has increased by 49.77%.
“We have an increase of 33.19% of the detainees compared to last year. Faced with this new operation, we reject unilateral foreign policies, we are dealing forceful blows against drug trafficking », he said.
He explained that all the routes that are used as a platform to extract drugs will be closed. “Venezuela has a zero tolerance policy,” she stated.
He also explained that the drug cartels intended to enter the country through Catatumbo to move the drug to Europe, Miami and Mexico.
This is the second major operation carried out by the FANB, In the past week The largest cache of marijuana was seized in the last ten years, in the Puerto Escondido sector, Cabo San Román, Falcón.
