Peru Considers Allowing Military to Again Shoot Down Drug-Smuggling Planes

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Peru Considers Allowing Military to Again Shoot Down Drug-Smuggling Planes

Government Has Program Under Review as It Seeks to Fight Cocaine Trade

By Robert Kozak
April 25, 2014 10:11 p.m. ET

LIMA, Peru—The government of Peru said Friday it is reviewing whether to allow its military to shoot down suspected drug-smuggling aircraft again, just three days after neighboring Bolivia said it would permit its air force to do so.

Peru suspended the program in 2001 after the military accidentally shot down a civilian Cessna carrying an American missionary family, killing a woman and her 7-month-old daughter. The tragedy led to international criticism of the policy, which had been carried out over Peru by Peruvian pilots with American logistical assistance.

But now Peru has become the biggest exporter of cocaine, according to the country's antidrug czar Carmen Masías, prompting the government to ratchet up its war on cocaine traffickers and their smuggling routes.

Defense Ministry officials have publicly suggested that aerial interdiction should be considered again. Most of the smuggling flights go to Brazil, a major consumer of cocaine as well as a jumping off point for drugs headed to Africa and Europe.


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[Ikonoklast]

1. The CIA will need more money to purchase replacement aircraft if that happens.

Their local 'independent contractors' will refuse to fly, and Peru will have a coup inside of eighteen months.

[EX500rider]

2. 'Cause you think the coke is being moved by the CIA? lol

And no, I don't care what happened somewhere else 30 years ago.

[Vincardog]

3. Especially after those responsible were publicaly humiliated jailed and run out of civalized

society.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. Good one!

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. Because the CIA would never, ever do anything like that, right?

It would never work with heroin-smuggling Italian mobsters to break the grip of Communist unions in Marseilles at the end of World War II.

It would never work with opium-growing Lao drug traffickers to keep them as allies during the Vietnam War.

It would never work with cocaine traffickers allied to the Contras during our war of aggression against Nicaragua.

Why would people think that a spook agency that would never, ever work with drug trafficking criminals might have something to do with the South American cocaine trade?

[EX500rider]

7. Again....not interested in 30 years ago but now.

I doubt Obama has the CIA running coke, sorry. And I don't think they've gone rouge either.

[Ikonoklast]

8. You actually believe the CIA tells the president, whoever it is, all they are doing?

They have never done so in their history.

[Judi Lynn]

9. They do what they want to do, until something big stops them. What a shame. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

10. You imagine they committed atrocities in the remote past, then put that bad behavior away?

What can you even be thinking?

It's a surprise you'd even consider trying to pull that one off among adults.

You owe it to yourself spending less time opining, and more time hitting the books, doing your homework, just the way anyone must in order to know what the #### he/she's talking about.

Don't argue from a position of total ignorance.

[EX500rider]

11. So can we blame Germany or Japan now for stuff they did 50+ years ago or is only the US special?

Judi, you think the CIA is running coke by the planefull and I'm the ignorant one? Good one!!

[EX500rider]

12. And only idiots think the CIA is currently running coke

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. What could possible go wrong? Ask Roni Bowers. Oh, you can't. She's dead

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roni_Bowers