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Security & Strategic Review - June 2016 (ISSN 1741-4202)

BOLIVIA-PERU: Targeting the air bridge

In excess of 1,000 clandestine landing strips have been uncovered in Bolivia in the last three years, according to the commander of the country’s special anti-drug force Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico (FELCN). In an interview published by the national daily La Razón on 5 June, the head of FELCN, Colonel Santiago Delgadillo, maintained that Bolivian authorities were working closely with their Peruvian counterparts in order to crack down on ‘narcovuelos’ (drug flights), principally from the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro rivers valley (Vraem), the largest coca-producing region in Peru, into Bolivian landing strips for onwards transit to Brazil and Europe.

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