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LatinNews Daily Report - 21 August 2012
In Brief – Peru
SECURITY| Brazilian police destroy coca plantations in Peru. On 20 August a spokesman from Brazil’s federal police revealed that Brazilian police officers had entered Peruvian territory to destroy 100 hectares of coca plantations as part of a joint operation code-named “Operación Trapecio”, which was carried out in the triple border Amazonian Trapeze, where Brazil, Peru and Colombia meet. According to the spokesman, the Brazilian officers, working in conjunction with the Peruvian national police, discovered the plantations and cocaine refining labs near the Peru-Brazil border. The announcement confirmed versions, recently published in the Brazilian daily Folha de São Paulo, that the Brazilian authorities were increasingly concerned that coca was being planted ever closer to the Brazilian border and that they had told their Peruvian counterparts that it would be “practical” for them to go in and destroy the illegal plantations. So far, Peruvian authorities have not confirmed or denied the incursion of Brazilian officers into Peruvian national territory. According to Brazilian data, 38% of the cocaine entering Brazil comes from Peru, while 54% comes from neighbouring Bolivia.
