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Weekly Report - 07 July 2011 (WR-11-27)

PERU: Humala courting and courted in US

President-elect Ollanta Humala travelled to Washington for talks with the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, on 6 July. He also had an unscheduled meeting with US President Barack Obama, who dropped in to greet him while he was holding talks with the US national security adviser, Tom Donilon. The gesture was very much appreciated by Humala, according to his spokesman, and suggests that the US is determined to start a potentially awkward relationship on the right footing. Only last week the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released its annual drug report in which it indicated that Peru was poised to displace Colombia as the world's largest producer of coca imminently. Humala has promised to cooperate fully with the US in tackling drug-trafficking, but he has been more reticent in discussing coca eradication as coca producers form part of his support base.

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