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Peruvian police seize over three tons of cocaine

Confiscated drugs at the police air base in Callao. photo

© Guadalupe Pardo/AP/dpa

Drug smuggling causes brutal violence and corruption in Latin America – the goods themselves go primarily to the USA and Europe. Now the police in Peru have made a particularly big find.

The Peruvian one Police have seized over three tonnes of cocaine in the north of the country. The drug was supposed to be smuggled into the USA via Central America, as the police in the South American country announced yesterday (local time). Six suspects from Ecuador and Colombia were arrested during the operation. “This was one of the most important operations against drug trafficking this year,” said senior prosecutor Daniel Alberto Jara.

Cocaine is almost exclusively produced in the South American countries of Colombia, Bolivia and Peru and is then smuggled primarily into the USA and Europe. Drug smuggling causes brutal violence and widespread corruption on transit routes. Latin America is also one of the most dangerous regions in the world, fueled by drug trafficking.