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 [...]