General Domingo Hernández Lárez, Chief of the Strategic Operational Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, reported that the members of the armed forces neutralized a plane that they link with drug trafficking groups in Colombia.
According to the senior officer, this is the 55th aircraft neutralized in 2021 and which is called under the acronym “tancol”, that is, Colombian drug traffickers armed terrorists and of which it is unknown to which group they belong.
At the moment It has not been clarified whether the operation had captured or seized drugsAlthough it is reiterated that they use clandestine aircraft runways in border areas.
“National Sovereignty is not negotiated, it is defended. Bolivarian National Armed Force neutralizes tancol aircraft No. 55 of the year 2021, which entered our airspace without an identification code using illegal clues such as the products they traffic. Venezuela is drug-free territory, ”said General Hernández.
