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Operation Snowcap (1987–1995), launched in the spring of 1987, was a counter-narcotics operation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), BORTAC (U.S. Border Patrol Tactical Unit) and military/police forces in nine Latin American countries.
The illegal drug trade in Peru includes the growing of coca and the shipment of cocaine to the United States. In an example of the balloon effect , dramatic falls in coca cultivation in the late 1990s saw cultivation move to Colombia .
The increase of drug usage in United States and Western Europe led to more drug production for Peruvian farmers selling at a higher price in the 1970s. [8] In the 1980s, the U.S drug policy towards Peru was used as a plan to prevent cocaine production for their people, which brought devastating results to the economy in Peru. [8]
Production of coca leaf, the raw material in cocaine, is surging in Peru despite 40 years of forced eradication designed to convince farmers to abandon it. Bolivia shows a better way forward.
Peru is a top coca and cocaine producer alongside Colombia, and its less-populous regions have become attractive to drug traffickers. Coca plantations in the Aguaytia region inched up some 3% last ...
The Llochegua Clashes were a series of armed confrontations that took place on the afternoon of Friday, July 21, 2017, in the Peruvian district of Llochegua within the framework of the narcoterrorist insurgency in the VRAEM, the specific location of the attack was in the Los Angeles area, located in the highway that connects the districts of Llochegua and Pichari—when members of the Peruvian ...
The allegations of Shining Path drug trafficking had been made by the Peruvian government prior to the U.S. decree. This decree froze all Shining Path financial assets in the United States. U.S. Treasury official John Smith stated that the decree would help "the government of Peru's efforts to actively combat the group". [5]
"We took the drug and fentanyl crisis head on, and we achieved the first reduction in overdose deaths in more than 30 years," Trump brags, referring to the 4 percent drop between 2017 and 2018 ...