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Ogla



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Colombia destroys 104 cocaine labs in five days
#23504402 - 08/03/16 03:48 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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3 August 2016 • 3:02am
Colombian law enforcement has destroyed 104 cocaine laboratories capable of producing some 100 tonnes of the drug annually, the head of the anti-narcotics police said on Tuesday.
The operation, conducted over five days in the country's southeastern jungle region, is part of new government strategy focused on combating drug production as well as the cultivation of coca, the base ingredient of cocaine.
"This is a structural blow to the finances of drug trafficking," anti-narcotics police director General Jose Angel Mendoza said in the jungles of Guaviare province.
The laboratories were burned down by police commandos.
Coca cultivation was up 39 percent in Colombia in 2015, according to United Nations data.
Law enforcement in the country confiscated 253 tonnes of cocaine in 2015, up 71 percent on the year before.
Leftist rebels and crime gangs are both involved in the drug trade - taxing coca growers, running production laboratories and smuggling the drug in partnership with Mexican cartels.
However, Farc rebel leaders have denied involvement in the drug trade.
In May, Colombian police said they seized their largest domestic haul ever of illegal drugs: eight tons of cocaine from the Usuga Clan, the country's leading organised crime ring.
Defence minister Luis Carlos Villegas said at the time that nearly 1.5 tons of cocaine was wrapped "and ready to go out to the export market."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/03/colombia-destroys-104-cocaine-labs-in-five-days-as-part-of-crack/
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Sheekle
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Re: Colombia destroys 104 cocaine labs in five days [Re: Ogla]
#23505832 - 08/03/16 02:01 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nice 
It's about time the authorities in Columbia stopped kneeling before the piece of shit cartel down there.
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Re: Colombia destroys 104 cocaine labs in five days [Re: Sheekle]
#23506747 - 08/03/16 06:08 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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All I know about cocaine is that when I visited Central America last winter, it was everywhere and people were selling it for less than weed gets here. This seems like good news (I'm not a coker, it seems to bring out desperation in people) but I doubt that the impact will be that big.
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Re: Colombia destroys 104 cocaine labs in five days [Re: Larch]
#23508484 - 08/04/16 06:33 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Larch said: All I know about cocaine is that when I visited Central America last winter, it was everywhere and people were selling it for less than weed gets here. This seems like good news (I'm not a coker, it seems to bring out desperation in people) but I doubt that the impact will be that big.
It seems like there are always articles about ludicrous amounts of blow being seized by the federales and it doesn't do jack shit to the prices at the source. It's understandable, they sell coca leaves by fat bagfuls in some places. Just think how much gets processed before it's sold down the street from leaf vendors.
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Re: Colombia destroys 104 cocaine labs in five days [Re: Larch]
#23510427 - 08/04/16 06:27 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Larch said: All I know about cocaine is that when I visited Central America last winter, it was everywhere and people were selling it for less than weed gets here. This seems like good news (I'm not a coker, it seems to bring out desperation in people) but I doubt that the impact will be that big.
yea not my flavor outside of once in a blue blue moon when someone lines me up while im drunk.
the stuff here is pretty not cut, but im within 3 hours of one of the biggest trafficking spots.
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