LatinNews Daily Report - 15 November 2012

SECURITY | Trilateral working group on narco-trafficking.   Following a 14 November meeting in Lima with his regional counterparts from Bolivia and Brazil, Peru’s interior minister, Wilfredo Pedraza, announced that a new trilateral working group would come up with proposals to jointly tackle drug trafficking. Pedraza said the technical group, which must report back in 60 days, would examine measures like improved joint border security efforts (land, air and fluvial), improved police coordination and intelligence sharing. Pedraza stressed the importance of “concrete actions” to tackle drug trafficking, with a focus on three shared border zones: Madre de Dios, Puno and Ucayali in Peru; the Bolivian departments of Pando, La Paz and Bení; and the north eastern border states of Acre and Rondônia in Brazil. Along with the Bolivian and Brazilian justice ministers, Carlos Romero and José Eduardo Cardozo respectively, also present at the meeting were: Peru’s justice minister, Eda Rivas, the deputy foreign minister, José Beraún Araníbar; the head of Peru’s national commission against drugs (Devida), Carmen Masías, and the national police chief, Raúl Salazar. Flavio Mirella, a representative from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, as well as the two ambassadors and other high level representatives from Bolivia and Brazil also attended.

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