 | Colombian authorities dismantled a cocaine lab of the National Liberation Army (ELN, in Spanish), in Tibú, department of Norte de Santander. The lab could produce 8 tons of cocaine hydrochloride a month. Eight structures, organized in warehouses and areas for the production and drying of alkaloids, sat on a 200-square-meter area. Authorities found 8,000 gallons of liquid supplies and cocaine base paste, equivalent to 4.3 tons of cocaine hydrochloride. They also uncovered 80 kilograms of cocaine base paste ready to be sold.
The lab reveals recent changes in the narcotrafficking industry. |