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  2. Illegal drug trade in Peru - Wikipedia

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    The illegal drug trade in Peru includes the growing of coca and the shipment of cocaine to the United States. In an example of the balloon effect , dramatic falls in coca cultivation in the late 1990s saw cultivation move to Colombia .

  3. Peru Two - Wikipedia

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    The Peru Two are two women from the United Kingdom, Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid, who were arrested on 6 August 2013 on suspicion of drug smuggling at Jorge Chávez International Airport, Lima, Peru, after their luggage was found to contain 12 kg (26 lb) of cocaine. [1] They had flown from Ibiza, Spain where they were on holiday.

  4. Illegal drug trade in Latin America - Wikipedia

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    The illegal drug trade in Latin America concerns primarily the production and sale of cocaine and cannabis, including the export of these banned substances to the United States and Europe. The coca cultivation is concentrated in the Andes of South America, particularly in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia; this is the world's only source region for ...

  5. Police in northern Peru port seize cocaine packets with Nazi ...

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    Peruvian anti-drug police seized 58 one-kilo packages of cocaine Thursday bearing a picture of a Nazi flag on the outside and the name Hitler printed in low relief. The drugs were hidden inside a ...

  6. Drug-smuggling women took 200 pounds of cocaine on exotic ...

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    Along with Andre Tamine, 63, the women — all Canadian nationals — were arrested and charged Sunday with attempting to smuggle 200 pounds of the drug into Australia as part of a major ...

  7. Security in Ecuador has come undone as drug cartels exploit ...

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    Torres is hypervigilant because Ecuador is increasingly at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine. Security in Ecuador has come undone as drug cartels exploit the banana industry ...

  8. Valle de los Ríos Apurímac, Ene y Mantaro - Wikipedia

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    Since 2012, Peru has overtaken Colombia as the world's largest cocaine-producing country. [5] [6] With local incomes below $10/day, the valleys are used to produce raw paste product, and much of the drug trade is controlled by the Shining Path.

  9. Organised crime in Peru - Wikipedia

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    Cocaine started in eastern Peru in 1948 to 1949, and has been rapidly expanding domestic cocaine production, making it the world's second largest cocaine producer, after Colombia. [8] Cocaine began as a major product for the Americans at the beginning of the Cold War, and the production of cocaine from Peru emerged during anti-communist regimes ...