Security & Strategic Review - May 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)

Peru is debating whether to amend or repeal a law just passed by congress that allows the military to become directly involved in antidrug actions — as distinct from fighting ‘narcoterrorists’ — against a backdrop of warnings that not only the fate of the antidrugs effort but even the forthcoming elections are threatened by the pervasive penetration of the country’s institutions by organised crime.