Officers of the Venezuelan National Guard. File photoMEXICO CITY, Apr 30The Venezuelan Armed Forces (FANB) captured a Colombian drug trafficking submarine in Apure state as part of Operation Bolivarian Shield, Strategic Operations Commander Domingo Hernandez said. 2022 «FANB, in defense of our sovereignty, hijacked a hard-hulled submarine on the banks of the Arauca River, which is used by TANCOL (Armed Terrorist Groups of Colombian Drug Traffickers — Ed.) to transport drugs from Colombia through our territory,» Hernandez wrote on Twitter, attaching 
The world's largest drug seizures in 2007-2021 Colombia to the Atlantic coast of Venezuela along the Orinoco River. As a result of army operations in 2021, 44 tons of okaina, 60 illegal runways and at least 51 aircraft were destroyed. More than 90% of the world's coca plantations are concentrated in the so-called «Andean drug triangle», which includes Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. A small amount of coca grows on the plantations of Panama, Ecuador, in the southwest of Venezuela and northeast of Brazil. in exchange for cryptocurrency
