President Alan Garcia signed an accord with his Colombian and Brazilian counterparts Sunday to reinforce surveillance of the Amazon region’s rivers, to combat the illegal traffic of arms and drugs and rebel groups such as Colombia’s FARC guerrillas.
“This tri-national action in the Amazonian jungle rivers will bolster our work in this very important territory and […]

Peru’s war on drugs has led to significant advances and the seizure of nearly 40 tons of illicit drugs in the past 12 months, Interior Minister Luis Alva Castro said Tuesday.
“We have almost reached 40 tons (of seized drugs) in the last 12 months,” said Castro in comments to state news agency Andina. “And this […]

The head of Peru’s military Joint Chiefs of staff said it would be a mistake to start eradication of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, in the Apurímac and Ene river valleys, VRAE, because of the social chaos it would cause among the majority of the poor inhabitants who eek out their living on […]

The gourmet ham and cheese sandwiches, packed and ready to go for the AeroMexico flight, seemed a little heavy? Oops, they sneaked cocaine into the in-flight food cart, again!
Just four months after a drug bust in its kitchens, Gate Gourmet Peru is back on the police radar, Peru’s weekly news magazine Caretas reported. The […]

Ongoing trials in Peru against jailed cocaine trafficker Fernando Zevallos and his sister Lupe must come to an end before they can be extradited to Chile said anti-drug prosecutor Iván Quispe Mansilla Thursday.
It is important that Peruvian justice determine their criminal responsibility before any extradition request can be examined, Mansilla told state news agency Andina.
Fernando […]

Police showed off more than four metric tons of cocaine Sunday, seized a day earlier in the port of Callao after drug-sniffing dogs identified the drugs hidden in a shipment of bentonite, a mineral clay used to make bricks.
The 4.3 tons of cocaine was recovered from four cargo containers in 219 plastic bags, mixed in […]

By Alejandro Vassilaqui
Executive director of the Information and Education Center for the Prevention of Drug Abuse (CEDRO)
Translated and reprinted from the opinion page of El Comercio.
Times change and so too does drug trafficking, to its advantage. It has the capacity to adjust to change with all the speed required for effective marketing. According to reliable […]

Peru’s anti-drug police, Dirandro, seized nearly two tons of cocaine bound for Europe this weekend during raids on two houses used by the same organized crime ring.
And according to daily La República, among those arrested was a rookie policewoman whom the traffickers infiltrated into a key police investigations unit to provide inside information on the […]

Congress approved a modified version of legislative decree 992, or the Lost Domain Law, yesterday that will allow authorities to seize the goods of people who are accused of crimes related to drug trafficking, kidnapping, extorsion and money laundering, among others.
The legislation was approved with 74 votes in favor, five against and 16 absent daily, […]

One police officer is dead and 11 wounded after a police patrol was ambushed yesterday in the southern Ayacucho Department. The head of Peru’s anti-narcotics police, Gen. Miguel Hidalgo, confirmed that Officer Marisela Solier López, 21, was killed during the attack on a jungle road outside the city of Huamanguilla, Agencia Andina reported.
The ambush is […]