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Security & Strategic Review - January 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)
PERU: Antidrugs ‘czar’ replaced over coca policy row
Ricardo Soberón did not last as head of Devida, Peru’s antidrug policy agency. On 10 January, five months after taking office, he resigned as a result of a clash with Óscar Valdés, now prime minister, over Soberón’s intention to de-emphasise coca eradication. His successor, Carmen Masías Claux, has ducked the issue, saying that eradication is the interior ministry’s job; her top priorities, she said, are prevention and rehabilitation. In the mean time, evidence is pointing to a decline in cocaine interdiction and an increase in coca cultivation.
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