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Illegal drug trade in Peru

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The illegal drug trade in Peru includes the growing of coca and the shipment of cocaine to the United States. In an example of the balloon effect, dramatic falls in coca cultivation in the late 1990s saw cultivation move to Colombia.

Events

In 2001, American Christian missionary Roni Bowers's plane was shot down by the Peruvian Air Force, in the belief it was carrying drugs.

In 2004, Fernando Zevallos, founder of airline Aero Continente, was added to the US list of drug kingpins. The Chilean government accused the airline's personnel of using their airplanes for trafficking drugs and subsequently grounded Aero Continente Chile in June 2002 and seized their assets.

References

References

  1. (July 26, 2001). "Stopping it, How Government Try--And Fail--to Stem the Flow of Drugs". The Economist.
  2. Amanda Ripley. (Apr 29, 2001). "A Mission Interrupted".
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