Follow-up to Responses to Information Requests PER13471, PER13472, PER13473 and PER13475 [PER14080]

Please find a fax from the Andean Commission of Jurists, received by the DIRB on 27 April 1993, that adds to Responses to Information Requests PER13471, PER13472, PER13473 and PER13475. What follows is an unofficial translation of the contents of the Spanish-language document, provided here for your reference.

1. After reviewing our information, mostly originating from the press, we have not found any reference to the anti-drug operations mentioned in your questions, except for a news cable from EFE [a news agency] dated 3 August 1989. The news cable states that an offensive against "narcoterrorism" took place in July 1989 in the Huallaga Valleyin the departments of San Martín and Hu nucoin which a number of rebel camps were destroyed and several rebels died.

2. The provinces of Pataz, Santiago de Chuco and Huamachuco in La Libertad were not under a state of emergency in 1988-1989. Only the province of Trujillo has been under a state of emergency, and only in August and September 1990.

3. The province of Huacrachuco, in Hu nuco, was placed under a state of emergency beginning 16 March 1988.

4. The department of La Libertad borders with the departments of San Martín and Hu nucowhere the production of coca is concentratedso it is likely that these crops exist in La Libertad.

Please excuse the general nature of our response and our current inability to confirm the anti-drug operations mentioned in your request, but unfortunately the researcher who is most familiar with this subject is away from the office [of the Andean Commission of Jurists] at this time. This response, however, does not mean the operations did not take place, but that they were not recorded by the press.

Reference


Andean Commission of Jurists, Lima. 27 April 1993. Fax Received by DIRB.

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Andean Commission of Jurists, Lima. 27 April 1993. Fax Received by DIRB.