LatinNews Daily Report - 06 August 2014

Claims have been made that the number of flights on Peru’s cocaine air bridge have been increasing, and that traffickers may have been testing the use of bigger aircraft to carry the drug. In the meantime interdiction of the ‘narcoflights’ (on the ground, since Peru does not have a shootdown policy) is hampered by the lack of radar surveillance, and acquiring it is taking its time.

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