Milk, no cream… and a dash of cocaine with your coffee? Police seize 68 kilos of cocaine concealed in coffee shipment

Peru anti-drug police seized 68 kilograms of high-purity cocaine, stashed in 500 bags of a coffee shipment due to be exported from the port of Paita, reported daily El Comercio on Friday. The police had followed the cocaine trail north from Lima, and made the intervention when the shipment was about to be loaded onto [...]

Close to 1,100 foreigners locked up in overcrowded Peruvian jails for cocaine smuggling

The promise of a fast buck has quickly turned into a nightmare for 1,094 foreigners who are awaiting trial or serving sentences in Peruvian jails, on charges of operating as drug mules or traffickers. Most drug mules, or ‘burriers’ as they are called in Peru- a fusion of “courier” and “burro,” or donkey – are [...]