Police Confiscate 307 Kgs of Cocaine Hydrochloride in Tri-Border Area

Peruvian police confiscated more than 300 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride that was being smuggled out of Peru on a north jungle river located in the tri-border area with Brazil and Colombia. According to daily El Comercio, the 279 packages containing 307 kilograms of the pure cocaine were seized on the Ucayali river in Loreto region. Authorities found the [...]

Five fatalities in small plane crash in Peruvian jungle

Five people died when a small police plane in Peru’s eastern Ucayali department crashed, local media reported on Friday. The crash was caused by mechanical failures late Thursday after the plane took off from the airport in Iparia, in the province of Coronel Portillo, on route to Pucallpa, the capital of Ucayali, daily El Comercio said.

Peru government prohibits extraction of paiche from Ucayali’s Imiría Lake for next 10 years

Peru has prohibited the extraction of paiche and other fish from Ucayali’s Imiría and Chauya Lakes until 2019, reported state news agency Andina on Thursday. The regulation, published today in official state daily El Peruano, is applicable only to commercial extraction, and not to subsistence fishing. As one of the largest freshwater fishes in the [...]