13 Cocaine Labs
Destroyed In Colombia
Thirteen cocaine
processing laboratories
apparently belonging to
Colombia's Revolutionary
Armed Forces (FARC) have
been destroyed,
Colombian police said
Wednesday.
The labs, with a
capacity to produce 16
tons of illicit drugs
per month, were found in
the central Meta
province as well as the
eastern Vichada province
in a recent operation,
the police said ina
press release.
"With the aim to combat
criminal gangs and
FARC's 16th front, 13
labs used to produce
cocaine were destroyed,"
it said.
The police also
confiscated 67 tons of
chemical products, 141
kgs of cocaine chlorate,
30 kgs of base cocaine
and 10,790 kgs of leafs.
Colombia's armed groups,
including
paramilitaries, usually
finance their illicit
activities by
trafficking weapons and
narcotics, as well as
blackmails and
kidnappings, media
reports said.
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