“Invasion plane” from a Mexican island Cozumel was destroyed by the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) Venezuela in the state of Zulia (west bordering Colombia), said this Thursday the operational strategic commander of the military establishment, Domingo Hernández Lares.

“This is a white twin-engine Gulfstream aircraft, registration V3-GRS, which It was detected by Venezuelan radars entering national airspace. with the transponder (telecommunications device) turned off and without permission,” the military man specified on his account on the social network X.

He assured that the plane had come from Cozumel and that upon its discovery, a “defense plan” was activated to “destroy the enemy aircraft.”

The FANB believes that the plane “It was used by transnational groups for drug and arms trafficking on the border,” which the country shares with Colombia.

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Hernandez Lares accompanied the information with photographs in which one can see the plane in flight, and later with other images that show the remains of a burning plane in a wooded area.

In November, Venezuelan armed forces immobilized another “enemy” aircraft in the state of Apure.

A few months earlier, in August, the military chief announced that the Armed Forces Destroyed two more small planes linked to drug trafficking and illegal mining in the Amazonian state of Bolivar, which borders Brazil.

From the beginning of 2023 until August 29 Venezuela disabled a total of 38 invasion aircraft linked to drug trafficking and illegal mining, a scourge the government is seeking to eradicate from the Amazon. (EFE)