Colombia: Military Forces Dismantles Camp of FARC Dissident in Peru

Goods Seized by the Military Police of Colombia from the FARC Dissidency, Aug 23, 2024 Photo: Fuerzas Militares Colombia

August 23, 2024 Hour: 5:51 pm

The camp was hidden in the Amazon, between the locality of Soplín Vargas (Peru) and Puerto Nariño (Colombia),

Colombian military forces dismantled a “gigantic” camp located on the border with Peru used by the Comandos de la Frontera, an allied group of the Segunda Marquetalia (FARC dissident), where there were facilities for processing narcotics and also war material, the Navy reported on Friday.

The camp was hidden in the Amazon, between the locality of Soplín Vargas (Peru) and Puerto Nariño (Colombia), and had facilities for the manufacture of explosives, “which represented a threat to security on the Colombo-Peruvian border”, the Navy noted in a statement.

The operation, carried out with the Peruvian National Police, found materials for the manufacture of improvised explosives, including 11 mortars, more than 600 grenades, 200 boxes of TNT, 300 land-mine explosives, 1,000 rounds of ammunition of different calibres, among other artifacts.

Nine laboratories used to process cocaine were destroyed, containing 7,580 tons of cocaine sulphate, 32,385 tons of chemical inputs and three firearms were confiscated.

En la frontera colombo-peruana, @ArmadaColombia, @PoliciaColombia y @PoliciaPeru desmantelaron gigantesco campamento de la "Segunda Marquetalia", donde al parecer procesaban cocaína y se fabricaban explosivos, que se utilizarían contra la #FuerzaPública.#ContundenciaOperacional pic.twitter.com/DGsK8JPVXF
— Armada de Colombia (@ArmadaColombia) August 23, 2024

“With this operation, the Navy avoided the entry of more than three million dollars into the finances of criminal organizations, drastically weakening their criminal capacity in the region,” the Navy said.

The Border Command is a group that operates on the southern border of Colombia, penetrating into Ecuador and Peru, almost exclusively engaged in illicit activities such as drug trafficking.

They have shown their alignment with the Second Marquetalia, led by the FARC’s ex-negotiator of the Havana peace agreement, ‘Iván Márquez’, a group that is currently at a new negotiating table with the Colombian government, Has a bilateral ceasefire in place.