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

Claims have been made that the number of flights on Peru’s cocaine airbridge has been increasing, and that traffickers may have been testing the use of bigger aircraft to carry the drug. In the mean time 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 time.