In 1978, the government of Francisco Morales Bermúdez enacted Decree Law 22095 to combat narcotics trafficking and control coca cultivation. This led to the implementation of Operativos Verde Mar I and Verde Mar II, which aimed to eradicate coca crops and suppress drug trafficking through the destruction of coca leaf …
In the late 1980s, experimental spraying with the herbicide SPIKE was carried out in the Uchiza area as part of coca eradication strategies. These fumigations were part of a series of obstacles that affected the town of Uchiza, which since 1984 had been an open drug trafficking center and perhaps …
Beginning in 1989, the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) began aerial interdiction operations in the Upper Huallaga with support from the U.S. Southern Command. This measure was part of a confluence of obstacles that affected drug trafficking in the area, especially in Uchiza, which was the largest market in the valley. …
In September 1989, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) base was installed in Santa Lucia as part of anti-drug operations in the Upper Huallaga. This installation was part of a confluence of obstacles that contributed to the decline of the town of Uchiza as an open drug trafficking center and the …
Thirty bodies of presumed DEA informants were found floating in the waters of the Huallaga River, although others said they were of peasants presumed to be Shining Path or drug traffickers. The official version was that it was a settling of scores between drug traffickers and Shining Path members, but …
On October 4, 1989, a major anti-drug operation was conducted in Paraíso, Peru, involving the national police and the U.S. DEA. The operation resulted in the deaths of 36 drug traffickers and injuries to six police officers. Several drug processing laboratories and clandestine airstrips were destroyed, highlighting Paraíso's role as …
