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A series of large-scale drug seizures at clandestine laboratories in a Venezuelan border state suggest the ELN and ex-FARC mafia are expanding cocaine processing in a region that was once used only as a trafficking route from Colombia. Venezuela’s armed forces seized 8.6 tons of cocaine at two makeshift processing laboratories in Jesús María Semprún, a municipality in the western state of Zulia, and another 650 kilograms at two nearby sites, the Venezuelan military announced February 9. Just a week earlier, authorities seized 350 kilograms of cocaine base and 600 kilograms of the chemical precursor urea at another clandestine lab in Zulia. Full Text -> InSightCrime
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