13 cocaine labs destroyed in Colombia

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13 cocaine labs destroyed in Colombia
www.chinaview.cn 2008-05-08 10:39:09

BOGOTA, May 7 (Xinhua) -- 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.

By romy on May 8, 2008, 17:57 in Politics & the war.

panthdave says on May 9, 2008, 09:02:

Guess what another 20 Labs opened after that....Will never stop...

panthdave Miami

panthdave says on May 9, 2008, 09:03:

They should just legalize the stuff...

panthdave Miami

rhydewithdis says on May 9, 2008, 09:08:

agree legalize and handle this through health policies since drug addiction is a health problem, not a criminal problem

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romy says on May 9, 2008, 09:13:

I agree

cali373 says on May 9, 2008, 11:24:

Now only a couple of thousand more to go!!! except for the paramilitary labs. Those are ok.

Smile if you are a thinker!

jonas says on May 9, 2008, 11:24:

Big deal... have you ever seen what these labs look like? It´s not like a pharmaceutical plant or something. I bet the destruction of the 67 tons of chemical products hurts the manufacturers a lot more. This is more like propaganda news.

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SiV says on May 16, 2008, 19:59:

These cocaine labs are basically tarpaulin sheds with 20 plastic drums and a few easily found chemicals in the middle of the rainforest.

Another 50 were probabaly built while they were destroying those 13.

Stultórum númere infinitum est.

la campiña says on May 16, 2008, 21:54:

jesus joseph and mary I thought I been rumbled

Lowell says on May 17, 2008, 09:32:

rumble in the jungle

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