Venezuelan military located and disabled an aircraft
“unidentified or authorized” that was hidden in a gallery forest in Apure state (southwest), bordering Colombia, reported this Saturday the operational strategic commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), Domingo Hernández Lárez.
“In the exercise of our sovereignty and in accordance with the law, (the) FANB locates and disables an unidentified or authorized aircraft, hidden in a gallery forest at the head of (an) illegal improvised runway in the municipality Pedro Camejo, Apure,” the official wrote on his Twitter account.
In exercise of our sovereignty and in accordance with the law, FANB locates and disables an unidentified or authorized aircraft, hidden in a gallery forest at the head of an illegal improvised runway in the Pedro Camejo – Apure municipality, being No. 27 of 2022 and 305 since 2012. pic.twitter.com/WX3SW6lIvW
— GJ. Domingo Hernández Lárez (@dhernandezlarez) September 3, 2022
It is, he added, the aircraft “number 27” disabled so far in 2022, which increases to 305 the number of aerial vehicles of this type destroyed since 2012.
Last Monday, Hernández Lárez reported that two aircraft that “attempted to violate the geographical space without authorization on unauthorized clandestine runways” were disabled, one also in Pedro Camejo, Apure, and the second in the Catatumbo municipality, in Zulia state, bordering Colombia.
The military chief attributed the ownership of these aircraft to the “tancol”, an acronym invented by the government that does not refer to any specific gang and that means “Colombian armed terrorist drug traffickers.”
He also reiterated that, with these operations along the border, the protection of the “sovereignty and integrity” of Venezuela is sought.
After the victory of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, both countries have the reopening of the border as a pending task, closed to vehicular traffic since 2015, but -as explained by the ambassador of the Andean nation, Armando Benedetti, In an interview with Efe- President Nicolás Maduro has asked to go “slower” in this process, expressing his concern about drug trafficking.
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