Secret Airstrips Destroyed in the Venezuelan State of Apure

[Catherina]

Secret Airstrips Destroyed in the Venezuelan State of Apure

Caracas, May 16 (Prensa Latina) Twelve clandestine landing strips were destroyed this year as part of Operation Boquete, in the Venezuelan state of Apure, official sources stated today.



The Boquete Operation began in 2007 with the goal of fighting drug trafficking and, specifically, to destroy the clandestine airstrips used to smuggle drugs.

According to a dispatch from the Venezuelan News Agency (AVN), the head of the Bolivarian National Armed Force's Strategic Operational Command (Ceofanb), Wilmer Barrientos, said that 1.8 tons of drugs were also seized as part of the aforementioned operation there.

Barrientos said that since the Boquete Operation started, 253 people have been arrested and 54 aircraft have been seized.

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http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1418871&Itemid=17

[Judi Lynn]

1. This is very cool news. Way to go! n/t

[Catherina]

2. Same reaction here lol n/t

[Catherina]

3. Venezuela has destroyed 12 clandestine airstrips near border with Colombia

Venezuela ha destruido 12 pistas clandestinas cerca de frontera con Colombia


Updated Friday, 17 May 2013


http://www.cmi.com.co/?n=106507

[Judi Lynn]

4. Very noticeable difference between current, recent Venezeuelan Presidents

and recent Colombian President, who assisted his friend, Pablo Escobar as he set up his own landing strips to make shipping cocaine easier!

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Colombia's president denies links to 1980s drug kingpin
ASSOCIATED PRESS
3:39 p.m. October 2, 2007

BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Tuesday publicly denied accusations that he befriended and helped a world-renowned drug kingpin in the 1980s.

Uribe denied any connection to Pablo Escobar, who was killed in a police shootout in 1993, responding to a new tell-all book by a former television news anchor who was Escobar's lover.

In “Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar,” Virginia Vallejo claims that in the early 1980s Uribe, as head of the civil aviation authority, authorized flights and landing strips for members of Escobar's Medellin cartel and even allowed the drug boss to smuggle in exotic pets for his flamboyant ranch.

Interviewed by Colombia's two main radio broadcasters, Uribe said that he met Vallejo briefly, on a flight from Bogota to Medellin, the city where Escobar ran his billion-dollar cocaine smuggling ring at around the same time Uribe was getting his political start.

More:
http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/world/20071002-1539-colombia-presidentspast.html