REDI Occidental offers the FANB's 2025 balance sheet: More than 52 thousand kg of drugs seized
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Published at: 30/12/2025 12:24 PM
The Commander of the Strategic Integral Defense Region
(REDI) No. 1 Western, M/G Pedro Esteban González Ovalles, provided the balance
of the operational results obtained by the
Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) during the year 2025, in the context of defense and national security actions.
From the bridge over Lake Maracaibo, Chief General
Rafael Urdaneta, González Ovalles highlighted the advances made by the FANB in
the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime, through the
various high-impact operations carried out in the region.
In the fight against drug trafficking, he highlighted the
historic record of 52,885 kg of drugs seized, “which is not produced in our
country, but that these criminals are trying to pass it through our
territory through the states of Zulia, Falcón and Lara.”
As part of the Catatumbo Lightning operation, the Rapid Reaction Units (URRA) in the state
of Zulia, in municipalities bordering Colombia, have destroyed 45 clandestine camps, 40 logistics
structures, 35 laboratories, a clandestine runway, 17
artisanal gunners; and three semi-submersibles, 71 boats, 122 outboard
engines, 223 firearms, 86,600 liters of fuel have been seized and put to the
Venezuelan justice order 1,630
individuals.
In Operation Binational Peace, the URRA combat forces have
succeeded in suppressing the actions of armed groups that generate violence, “achieving
the seizure of 119 firearms, 94 magazines, 11,585 cartridges, 216
grenades, 757 detonators, 402 meters of detonating cord and 53,200 liters of fuel.
250
criminals have been arrested and brought to justice.”
During the Cacique Manaure operation, the URRA combat forces in
Falcón disbanded 15 clandestine runways, destroyed two camps, and
seized 32 boats, 12 unsubmersibles, 48 outboard engines, 116 firearms and 69,900 liters of fuel.
As part of the Iron Hand operation, in five multidisciplinary comprehensive care posts installed in the states
of Zulia and Lara, 458 thousand kilograms of food,
1,449 live animals, 5 thousand 086
kg of strategic material, 124 thousand 560 liters of fuel, 12 thousand 650 liters
of lubricant and 11 thousand 900 units of medicine have been seized.
The Commander highlighted the deployment of
mixed combat URRAs in concentric rings, as part of a shock force to ensure the comprehensive safety of the Ana María Campos Petrochemical Complex,
the
Bajo Grande Refinery and the Paraguaná Refining Center.
“To close this balance sheet, we must highlight our active
participation in the Independence 2000 exercise, Cacique Guaicaipura,
protection of ports and airports and the coastal defense exercise in Cabo San Román.
To achieve the optimal point of preparation in defense,” he said.
González Ovalles emphasized that all these results were
possible thanks to the perfect popular-military-police fusion, reflecting the
commitment of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) to the defense of
sovereignty, the protection of the people and the guarantee of peace in the western territory of the country.
Mazo News Team