In 2022, the agency neutralized a total of 42 planes linked to drug trafficking, where the military disabled a hostile plane associated with drug trafficking in the state of Apure (west, on the border with Colombia), the strategic operational commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces reported this Wednesday. (FANB), Domingo Hernández Lárez.
“In the Pedro Camejo municipality of Apure state, (the) FANB disables an unidentified hostile aircraft associated with drug trafficking,” said the official on Twitter, where he shared a video of the operation showing the plane.
Hernández Lárez indicated that the aircraft, the eleventh disabled so far in 2023, violated Venezuelan airspace, lacked a flight plan and had the transmitter disconnected.
In another operation, in the state of Amazonas (south, on the border with Colombia and Brazil), Hernández Lárez announced the destruction of a camp, whose ownership he attributed to the “tancol groups”, an acronym invented by the Venezuelan government that does not refer to any band in specific and that means armed terrorists Colombian drug traffickers.
The military chief did not offer more information in this regard, so it is unknown if there were detainees in any of the operations.
Last Sunday, the official reported that another aircraft was disabled in an area near Colombia, in the state of Zulia (west).
In 2022, the FANB neutralized a total of 42 planes linked to drug trafficking, the last of which was destroyed “when trying to land on a clandestine runway” in Zulia state.
