A camp and cocaine manufacturing “laboratory” was found and destroyed in western Colombia on Monday, local media reported.
The camp was discovered and dismantled by a task force from the Colombian army in Pichincha, within the western state of Cauca.
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The camp has been attributed to the guerrilla group the FARC’s “ Miller Perdomo” mobile column and had the capacity to sleep 12 people and produce 500 kilos of cocaine a week, according to El Pais newspaper.
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The commander of the Colombian Army’s Third Brigade, Colonel Jorge Ivan Hernandez Monsalve, stressed that maintaining a “constant offensive” against such drug production was key to ending the problem and asked for local people to continue to help the army in this pursuit.
