Fanb seizes two aircraft linked to drug trafficking in Apure state (video)

Venezuelan military dismantled a logistics camp linked to drug trafficking in which they seized two planes in the Apure state (west, border with Colombia), the Operational Strategic Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) reported Friday.

EFE

The Castrense institution indicated, through X, that they also disabled an «unauthorized clandestine track», as well as 6,400 liters of plane gasoline, mesh with artificial camouflage for aircraft, a hook to drag this type of transport and 600 meters of hose.

One of the planes, he continued, was located hidden among the weeds with 500 kilograms of urea, a product «presumably used for drug trafficking activities.»

The command did not specify whether during this operation there were detainees.

On February 18, the National Anti -Drug Superintendence (SUNAD) of Venezuela reported that in 2024 «more than 450 aircraft» linked to drug trafficking were unused.

Through Instagram, Superintendent Danny Ferrer Sandrea indicated that since 2005, when the government of the late President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) expelled from the country to the drug control administration (DEA) of the United States, the «authorities of the Nation have always achieved seizures that exceed 30 % of drug confirmed in previous years.»

Ferrer said that the capture of «more» of 170 «capos» and members of «criminal structures» that have been «put to the order of national and international instances,» has also been achieved.

According to the head of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, «more than 100 tons» of drugs – said to specify the figure – have been seized since 2022 on the border with Colombia, as a result of the ‘Catatumbo lightning operation’, which was reactivated at the end of January after the conflict in the Catatumbo area.