A mixed military commission located and destroyed a camp built by the Tren del Llano criminal organization, an ally of Colombian drug cartels, according to military sources.
The camp was located in the surroundings of the Guanapito and Orocollal reservoirs, José Tadeo Monagas municipality (Altagracia de Orituco), Guárico. The site was guarded by members of the Tren del Llano who engaged in a brief armed confrontation with agents of the National Anti-Extortion and Kidnapping Command (Conas) and Rural Command Detachment 34-2.
In the camp facilities, the soldiers found 127 caliber 7.62 x 51 percussion cartridges, 309 caliber 7.62 x 39 percussion cartridges and 31 caliber 5.56 percussion cartridges. They also located three rifle grenade safety rings, four 7.62 x 51 caliber propellant cartridges and three unpercussed 7.62 x 39 caliber cartridges, says the report.
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And in the Guamachal urbanization, Valle de la Pascua (Guárico), military personnel detained Rosangela del Valle Hernández Vázquez, a romantic partner of Edgar Mariano Perdomo, head of a cell of the Tren del Llano.
The woman had 40 cartridges: 20 caliber 5.56x 45 mm without firing and 20 9 mm without firing.
The cell directed by Edgar Mariano Perdomo is dedicated to collecting vaccines from agro-producers and merchants in the region. And Rosángela is one of those in charge of receiving the collection of the amounts in foreign currency that the criminal organization demands from its victims to “spare their lives”, according to the investigations.
In recent months, the Tren del Llano, a criminal organization based in Altagracia de Orituco, has expanded to other municipalities in Guárico such as Zaraza, Valle de la Pascua and Tucupido. Their idea is to control rural areas so that they can allow the passage of drug shipments through those roads that connect with the eastern plains of Venezuela.
