Coca has increasingly expanded into Peru’s border regions, as well as into indigenous communities and protected nature areas.
Shining Path
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A dozen people are dead in Peru since February amid escalating violence involving the Shining Path guerrilla group.
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Increased coca cultivation in Peru provides the raw ingredient cocaine traffickers use when pushing into developing markets like Australia.
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Felled and Burned: Deforestation in Peru’s Amazon
by Mia Meyerby Mia MeyerRich in resources, Peru’s Amazon is being plundered at an accelerated rate, losing more than 26,000 square kilometers of forest since 2001.
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In arguably the most polarizing election Peru has seen in its history, voters have selected, by a razor-thin margin, a leftist rural school teacher over the daughter of a former …
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Authorities in Peru have sent troops to an isolated river valley at the heart of the country’s cocaine trade after the massacre of more than a dozen individuals, raising fresh …
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The Shining Path or the Militarized Communist Party (Militarizado Partido Comunista – MPC) is the last remnant of Peru’s guerrilla movement from the end of the 20th Century. Although the …
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Military officials in Peru have announced the death of a top Shining Path commander more than five months after an operation in which they claim he was injured in a …
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Yet again, Peruvian security forces are seeking to force Shining Path guerrillas out a jungle region that produces most of the country’s cocaine, but military operations have long failed to …
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A 400-page document by Peru’s Shining Path guerrillas details the group’s elaborate plans to increase drug trafficking operations and attacks on the military. But its long-held ultimate goal — to overthrow …