Venezuelan military located and disabled an “unidentified or authorized” aircraft that was hidden in a gallery forest in the state of Apure, 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 of Pedro Camejo, Apure,” he wrote. the official on his Twitter account.
It is, he added, the aircraft “number 27” disabled so far in 2022, which increases the number of air vehicles of this type destroyed since 2012 to 305.
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, border with Columbia.
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.”
Likewise, he reiterated that, with these operations in the border axis, 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- the President Nicolás Maduro has asked to go “slower” in this process, expressing his concern regarding drug trafficking.
