The finding of these structures occurred in a joint and coordinated operation conducted by the National Army, the Colombian Air Force and the National Police.
Valley. In development of territorial control operations, troops of the Twenty-ninth Brigade of the Third Division of the National Army, the Air Combat Command No. 7 of the Air Force and the Criminal Investigation Section (SIJIN) of the Cauca Police discovery and destruction of two cocaine laboratories with a capacity to produce one ton of cocaine hydrochloride per week.
In the municipality of Marsella, jurisdiction of the municipality of Florencia, Cauca, through search proceedings authorized by the Prosecutor's Office 5 Eda section, two structures troops found containing 1,100 gallons of liquid cocaine, 500 kilos of potassium permanganate, 100 gallons of acetone, 1,000 kilos of cement, 200 kilos of sodium hydroxide, 500 gallons of gasoline, 30 microwave ovens, 01 report, 02 grameras, 01 hydraulic press, 20 tanks of 5,000 liters each, a 4,000 W power plant and a manufacturing still homemade improvised.
The site in the same way found two hideouts with storage capacity of more than two tons of precursors and destroyed 1,000 kilos of food. The structures, which were destroyed in a controlled manner, belong to the "Manuel Vásquez Castaño" Front of the ELN and are valued at approximately five thousand five hundred million pesos ($ 5,500,000,000), which directly hits the illicit finances of this Armed Group Organized.
Source: Air Combat Command N ° 7 - Colombian Air Force.