{"id":46493,"date":"2026-02-11T03:51:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/inside-the-operation-to-destroy-drug-labs-in-the-colombian-jungle\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T03:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:51:43","slug":"inside-the-operation-to-destroy-drug-labs-in-the-colombian-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/inside-the-operation-to-destroy-drug-labs-in-the-colombian-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the operation to destroy drug labs in the Colombian jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">BBC Senior international correspondent Orla Guerin joins specialist police on a mission over Colombia&#8217;s cocaine heartland, tasked with destroying crude cocaine labs hidden deep in the jungle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Jungle Commandos, a police unit armed by the United States and originally trained by Britain&#8217;s SAS, have been looking for the labs which are little more than shacks with drums of chemicals and fresh coca leaves, ready to be turned into a paste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Major Cristhian Cedano D\u00edaz, a 16-year veteran of the war on drugs, told the BBC a cocaine lab can be rebuild quickly, &#8220;in just one day&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Colombia has been criticised by US President Trump for not doing enough to combat the drugs trade, though Colombia&#8217;s President Gustavo Petro claims that his government has seized the largest amount of drugs in history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"correspondent:-orla-guerin,-camera:-goktay-koraltan-producer:-wietske-burema-edited-by:-marina-costa\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">Correspondent: Orla Guerin, Camera: Goktay Koraltan Producer: Wietske Burema Edited by: Marina Costa<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cp9jg1kr9pjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Senior international correspondent Orla Guerin joins specialist police on a mission over Colombia&#8217;s cocaine heartland, tasked with destroying crude cocaine labs hidden deep in the jungle. The Jungle Commandos, a police unit armed by the United States and originally trained by Britain&#8217;s SAS, have been looking for the labs which are little more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46495,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46493\/revisions\/46495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}