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...Until this attack, the Shining Path had been fading slowly since its top leaders were caught in 1992. Guibovich estimated that the outlawed party has around 300 armed fighters in the VRAE. A smaller number of armed guerrillas are also active in another coca-growing region, the Upper Huallaga Valley...
...search party confirmed last night that five U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents were killed in a mysterious weekend plane crash in Peru's cocaine-producing jungle. The CASA C-212 twin-engine plane went down Saturday in the Upper Huallaga Valley, a remote area in one of only two South American regions where illegal coca leaves are grown. Peruvian air force commandos spotted the wreckage Sunday, but heavy rains and thick vegetation hampered the recovery operation for a day. A D.E.A. investigation is trying to discover whether armed drug traffickers or Shining Path guerrillas who infest the area played...
...reasons for such an inconsistency are clear, such as the nasty habit of Peruvian drug police to end up in vats of hydrochloric acid in the Upper Huallaga Valley and the tendency of entire Latin American governments to be completely and totally corrupted by drug lords...
...American lawmaker had come to Peru for a firsthand look at that country's drug-interdiction efforts. "Why so much smoke?" asked Congressman ROBERT TORRICELLI of New Jersey as his helicopter waited to take off from a military outpost in the Huallaga Valley. "They are burning off the forest to plant more coca," answered the pilot. As the chopper circled over the municipal airport, the legislator noticed frantic activity on the runway. "They are loading cocaine," explained his guide. "Why don't the police and the military do something to stop it?" the Congressman asked his Peruvian hosts when...
Infested with terrorists, bandits and drug thugs, Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley would seem to be one of the least hospitable places on earth for a major U.S. company to go in search of resources. Yet Mobil Oil is hard at work on a $107 million project to explore for oil and natural gas in the energy-rich jungle region, which happens to produce nearly half the coca leaves used to supply Americans with cocaine...