The military operations during the 179 days completed to date during the year 2021, demonstrate the commitment of soldiers, men and women, in the municipalities of San José del Guaviare, Calamar, El Retorno and Miraflores, who with professionalism fulfill the constitutional mission.
During the first half of 2021, the National Army in Guaviare has achieved heavy results against the Residual Organized Armed Group GAO-r Estructura Primera, and other criminal groups that with their criminal operations seek to disrupt law and order and attack the tranquility of Colombians in the southeast of the country.
Thus far, the National Army, in a joint, coordinated and inter-institutional manner, has managed to arrest 104 persons for various crimes, has brought to justice 11 persons who decided to reintegrate into civilian life and has recovered two minors whose rights have been restored in conjunction with the Colombian Family Wellbeing Institute (ICBF).
In operations against drug trafficking, it was possible to find more than 250 kilograms of coca base paste and more than 660 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride as well as the finding and controlled destruction of 77 laboratories for the production of these drugs, and the destruction of more than 290 coca bush seedbeds, and the manual eradication of approximately 2,639 hectares of illicit plantations.
Similarly, in a fight against the use of improvised explosive devices, which violate Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, the Army has managed to neutralize approximately 120 anti-personnel mines, most of them planted near illicit plantations, hamlets and roads, where civilians and troops regularly transit, to harm human lives and obstruct the eradication of coca plantations.
The soldiers' commitment is in the same way reflected in the preservation of the environment and its ecosystems, so in the framework of Operation Artemisa, they have achieved the planting of approximately 46,000 seedlings of the region during the year 2021, thus helping the reforestation and recovery of jungle areas hit by indiscriminate logging and drug trafficking.
Source: press-National Army
