- Title: COLOMBIA: ANTI-NARCOTICS POLICE DESTROY COCAINE LABORATORY
- Date: 10th November 2000
- Summary: PUERTO BERRIO (NOVEMBER 8, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. AV ARMY HELICOPTER LANDING (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. SCU DIRECTOR OF POLICE ANTI-NARCOTICS UNIT, GENERAL GUSTAVO SOCHA, WALKING 0.18 3. SVL RUBBISH BINS USED FOR DRUG PROCESSING 0.21 4. SCU ANTI-NARCOTIC POLICE LOOKING OVER DRUG LABORATORY; ANTI-NARCOTIC POLICE DISPLAYING DRUGS; DRUG PROCESSING EQUIPMENT; DRUG PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (5 SHOTS) 0.48 5. SCU MORE POLICE DISPLAYING DRUGS; POLICE INSIDE LABORATORY; POLICE EXAMINE DRUGS; MORE POLICE IN LABORATORY AND ON DUTY OUTSIDE (8 SHOTS) 1.30 6. (SOUNDBITE)(Spanish) SOCHA: "We think we have about six hundred and twenty kilos with a coca base, cocaine chlorinate and we have found within the complex special equipment that has been used by these criminal organisations". 1.52 7. SCU COCAINE BEING PROCESSED (2 SHOTS) 2.01 8. SLV PAN POLICE IN FRONT OF LABORATORY (2 SHOTS) 2.10 9. LV POLICE BURNING LABORATORY (EXPLOSION FOLLOWED BY FLAMES) (3 SHOTS) 2.30 10. AV ARMY HELICOPTER TAKING OFF 2.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: PUERTO BERRIO, COLOMBIA
- Country: Colombia
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- Story Text: Anti-narcotics police have destroyed a cocaine
laboratory deep in the Colombian jungle which is believed to
produce a ton of cocaine a week.
The cocaine laboratory in the rural and heavily
forested zone of the Puerto Berrio Municipality, 200
kilometres northeast of Bogota. was destroyed by police on
Wednesday (November 8).
Officials also seized 620 kilos from the same location
which is controlled by right-wing paramilitary groups.
In his first anti-narcotics operation since being
appointed a week ago, the Director of
Anti-Narcotics Police, General Gustavo Socha, stated, "We
think we have about 620 kilos with a coca base, cocaine
chlorinate and we have found, within the complex, special
equipment that has been used by these criminal organisations."
Colombian authorities believe that both leftist guerrilla
groups and right-wing
para-militaries are involved in narcotic trafficking
activities, which they use to finance their forces fighting in
the western hemisphere's longest running civil war.
This year, with logistical and monetary aid from the
United States, Colombian authorities have doubled the amount
of confiscated drugs to about 50 tons.
Colombia is considered the world's largest cocaine
producer with a yield of 520 tons a year.
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