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The U. S. Drug War in Peru
Andreas, P. | August 13, 1988 issue

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In its effort to escalate the war on thugs, the U.S. administration has become entangled in South America's most intense and brutal counterinsurgency campaign. In Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley, Condor 6, a U.S.-sponsored narcotics control operation, works side by side with a campaign by militarized Peruvian police to wrest control of the jungle region from drug traffickers and the Maoist insurgents of Sendero Luminoso. The state department says that Evergreen's role in Condor 6 is to transport supplies and provide rapid mobility to Peruvian troops. U.S. officials in Washington and Peru are careful to emphasize that counterinsurgency is neither the intent nor the focus of the program.

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INSURGENCY; INTERNAL security; CIVIL war; REVOLUTIONS; GOVERNMENT, Resistance to; SOUTH America; UNITED States
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