The Venezuelan military forces report on actions they are carrying out in rural areas of the Apure state, bordering Colombia, to collect and deactivate the explosives that would have been left by Colombian drug criminal groups in Venezuelan territory.
In several tweets, the operational strategic commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), Domingo Hernández Lárez, explained that they are carrying out “cleaning and sweeping of explosives” in Apure State , separated from Colombia by the Arauca River –a natural border between both countries–, within the framework of the ‘Operation Bolivarian Shield 2022 Vuelvan Caras’.
Integral Defense Operational Zone (ZODI) in Apure state:
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Not kidding ! We have deactivated explosives from Colombian military industries placed in trees, roads, and under bridges, used by the TANCOLs to terrorize Venezuelan residents in our own territory and use it as a route for drug trafficking
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This material would be used by drug traffickers and paramilitary groups that have been operating for decades in the Colombian armed conflict and that have now infiltrated Venezuelan territory, whom Caracas calls Tancol (‘armed drug-trafficking terrorists from Colombia’).
