Within the framework of the Bolivarian shield “Maroa 2025”, The Operational Strategic Commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), Domingo Hernández Lárez, informed that a logistics camp used for illegal mining in the Amazon state was dismantled.
Through the account of the Instagram social network, he said that thanks to the patrolling used in the area of the Atabapo municipality, the following implements were seized: a plastic drum with a capacity of 220 liters of fuel, four 13 hp motobombs, an electric plant of 2500 W, 400 meters of high pressure hose of 4 ”, a gasoline kitchen, a snail of 8”, seven plastic containers of 20 liters of 20 liters and 60 liters containing fuel and 15 bags full of lands and rocks with gold material.
Although there was no talk of arrests at the scene, the camp was destroyed and incinerated by the FANB troops.
Hernánez Lárez recalled that “the exploitation of mining or hydrocarbons in the Amazon state is totally prohibited for being a special area Abrae (areas under special administration regime) and security and defense zone, protected by the State.”
