[3] In Libya, the ship was loaded with 1,000 Belgian FN FAL combat rifles, and one million rounds of 7.62×51mm ammunition.
Fully fueled, the Karina sails to Panama, where half the load is transferred to a stolen cargo ship named 'El Zar'.
[4] The weapons on the Zar are sailed to Colombia's La Guajira Department, and hidden near a clandestine landing strip[5] outside the beach town of Dibulla.
[6] Meanwhile, the Karina, still holding half the weapons, crosses the Panama Canal and tries to disembark its load along Colombia's Pacific coastal region of Chocó, but is intercepted by the Colombian Navy ship ARC Sebastián de Belalcázar,[7] and sunk.
[8] In order to move the weapons that were stashed near Dibulla, another M-19 commando hijacks a Curtiss C-46 cargo plane belonging to the charter company Aeropesca.