The Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) seized a six-meter-long submarine that was used by the Colombian Drug Trafficking Armed Terrorist Groups (Tancol) to traffic drugs using the Orinoco River.
The strategic operational commander of the FANB, Domingo Hernández Lárez, specified through Twitter that the “submarine-type rigid hull vessel” was seized on the banks of the Arauca River.
«The unspeakable in our sovereign territorial waters, the Tancol submarine moving surreptitiously under the waters to evade controls and take their drugs from Colombia to the Atlantic coast. We will continue to remove them from our country,” he said.
He reported that in Apure explosive devices were located “placed by the Tancols on the sidewalk of the field in the vicinity of Elorza.”
“We will continue to systematically clear our territory. Independence and freedom or nothing », he affirmed.
Hernández Lárez asserted that the FANB will continue to be deployed with the Catatumbo Lightning operation to disable “each and every one of the clandestine airstrips found in the state of Zulia.”
This week the FANB destroyed a camp with more than 7,000 kilograms of drugs, liquid and solid chemicals and fuel belonging to the Tancol in the Jesús María Semprún Municipality of Zulia state.
