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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Russia arrests suspected cartel members, seizes $55 million ...

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    The FSB said the smugglers brought the drugs into Russia from Peru hidden in a ... The Cali cartel controlled up to 80 percent of the cocaine trade to the United States at its peak in the mid ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Cocaine market is booming as meth trafficking spreads, U.N ...

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    Coca bush cultivation and total cocaine production were at record highs in 2021, the most recent year for which data is available, and the global number of cocaine users, estimated at 22 million ...

  9. Legal status of cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Use and possession of cocaine is illegal. Possession of cocaine is explicitly named as an illegal substance under the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. The possession 10 grams or more of cocaine or cocaine hydrochloride is punishable by up to life imprisonment. [28] Peru: Legal (up to 2 grams of cocaine or 5 grams of cocaine-freebase ...