At the Center of the Conflict: Coca Growers, Drug Trafficking and Shining Path in the Alto Huallaga
Although coca-growing farmers deny it, the presence of drug trafficking and Senderismo behind coca leaf cultivation and the mobilization of farmers is practically irrefutable.
Referenced in events
- Presence of PCP-SL begins to be noticed in Alto Huallaga
- Shining Path incursion in Alto Huallaga
- Presentation of PCP-SL in Alto Huallaga
- Coca growers' strike with PCP-SL presence in Aucayacu
- Appearance of PCP-SL in Alto Huallaga
- Coca growers' strike in Tingo María
- First subversive action against CORAH
- Murder of CORAH workers and destruction of police post in Aucayacu
- Coca growers strike in Aucayacu
- PCP-SL recruits coca growers in Ucayali
- PCP-SL assumes defense of coca in Ucayali
- Hikers attack to Uchiza police station
- Economic crisis in the Huallaga river basin due to falling coca prices