Huallaga Valley
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The Huallaga Valley is located in northern Peru, south of Tarapoto. It follows the Huallaga River.
[edit] Coca
Since the 1980s, the primary coca growing and drug trafficking activities in Peru have been in the Upper Huallaga Valley. [1]
The coca is flown to Colombia, where it is used to create cocaine, which is subsequently shipped to the United States.
Vladimiro Montesinos, ex-head of Peru's intelligence service, is reported to have received $50,000 for every plane laden with drugs allowed to leave the Huallaga Valley. [2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
Van Dun, M. (2009). Cocaleros: Violence, drugs and social mobilization in the post-conflict Upper Huallaga Valley, Peru. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
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