Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Peru Shoot-down Law Turns Drug Smugglers to Boats, Backpackers

(Version anglaise seulement)

A law in Peru that allows the military to shoot down planes suspected of smuggling drugs has forced traffickers to move cocaine out of a remote jungle region by boat and on foot, the prime minister said on Tuesday. The law, which ended a 15-year ban on the downing of civilian aircraft when it went into effect in January, intends to keep scores of small planes from flying drugs out of the Peruvian Amazon and into neighboring Bolivia and Brazil. Prime Minister Pedro Cateriano said that...

Lire l'article complet