2 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
The largest coca-growing region in the world, in the hands of Senderistas, drug traffickers, soldiers, and police. Sendero Luminoso has entered the Alto Huallaga to provide protection to coca-farming peasants …
After nearly a decade in Peru, with two constitutional governments elected by clear majorities, the second is preparing to hold new elections, amid a loss of popularity; a severe economic …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …