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Viewing cable 07LIMA1667, NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR APRIL 2007

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07LIMA1667 2007-05-08 21:02 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Lima
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INFO RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 4632
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 7323
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ MAY QUITO 1194
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RULSJGA/COMDT COGARD WASHINGTON DC//G-CI/G-M/G-OLE//
RUCOWCA/COMLANTAREA COGARD PORTSMOUTH VA
RUWDQAA/COMPACAREA COGARD ALAMEDA CA
UNCLAS LIMA 001667 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR INL/LP 
STATE FOR WHA/PPC 
ONDCP FOR LT COL RONALD GARNER 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
SUBJECT: NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR APRIL 2007 
 
REF: A. LIMA 0909 
 
     B. LIMA 1270 
     C. LIMA 1587 
     D. LIMA 1396 
     E. LIMA 1412 
 
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SUMMARY 
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1. (U) The key developments in April 2007: 
 
** Eradication total of 894 hectares is low compared to this 
time last year; in April 2006 we had eradicated 3,120. 
 
** Garcia embraced eradication as an important element of GOP 
policy; taking a tough line against cocaleros. 
 
** CORAH worker killed and 5 police wounded by snipers; 
suspect Sendero Luminoso involvement. 
 
** To date, DIRANDRO special operations group has destroyed 
121 cocaine-production laboratories. 
 
** S.L. threat during interdiction/eradication operations in 
the Yanajanca area is increasing the hours flown by UH-2s and 
the risk of combat. 
 
** Peruvians seize a total of 2.2 metric tons of cocaine HCL 
at air/seaports, border entry points, and cargo terminals. 
 
** DIRANDRO and FAP cooperate in using the C-26s to increase 
intelligence for interdiction and eradication operations. 
 
** NAS is developing six how-to manuals to teach people to 
organize and run a community anti-drug coalition. 
 
** With NAS support, Justice Ministry initiates a campaign to 
create support for a non-penal asset forfeiture law. 
 
END SUMMARY 
 
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PROTESTS AND POLITICS SLOW ERADICATION TO A CRAWL 
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2. (U)  As of April 30, CORAH has eradicated a total of 894 
hectares and eliminated 6,204 square meters of seedbeds. 
This is just 29 percent of last year's eradication total at 
this time last year.  For comparison, the figures are: 
 
                       Hectares eradicated 
      Thru April 2006      3,120 
      Thru April 2007        894 
    During April 2006      1,393 
    During April 2007        243 
 
3. (U)  This result is due to several factors: 
    ** Cocalero protests in the Tocache area halted 
eradication from March 11 to April 6, during which 
Agriculture Minister Salazar signed the Tocache accord with 
the cocaleros (Ref A). 
    ** Police officers were pulled from the CORAH security 
detail to handle the rash of local strikes resulting from the 
initial cocalero strike in Tocache. 
    ** Some police returned, but not enough to allow CORAH to 
stay overnight in the field--a strategy that saves on 
transport costs and gives CORAH more time to eradicate. 
    ** On April 12, eradication was suspended for six days 
when snipers killed a CORAH worker and wounded five police 
(see Para 6 and Ref B).  Eradication resumed on April 19. 
    ** The rainy season started late and is just now coming 
to a close.  The wet conditions hampered eradication 
operations and often grounded aircraft. 
 
4. (U)  On April 6, 26 days after the Tocache incident, CORAH 
started eradicating in the Yanajanca area, south of Santa 
Lucia.  The GOP has yet to reinitiate full-scale eradication 
operations, although CORAH has been able to conduct 
small-scale operations, resulting in 243 hectares eradicated 
this month.  If eradication operations were to continue at 
the current rate, CORAH would not be able to reach the 
10,000-hectare annual goal and would eradicate only 3,000 
hectares by December 15, the usual cut-off point for 
operations.  Production will remain low unless CORAH has 
enough police protection to spend 3-4 nights in the field. 
Eradication is particularly sensitive in the face of strong 
cocalero opposition and the police are exhibiting nervousness 
over inevitable social conflict. 
 
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GARCIA CONDEMNS NARCOTRAFFICKING AND DEFENDS ERADICATION 
--------------------------------------------- ------------ 
5. (U)  Despite the low eradication figures, there appears to 
be more good news than bad.  President Garcia sees the fight 
against narcotics as something that touches upon Peru's core 
security interests (Refs B and C).  For the first time in 
years, the GOP is putting important new resources of its own 
into the counter narcotics effort.  The GOP is also talking 
about such as initiatives as asset forfeiture and increased 
interdiction of precursor chemicals.  Garcia has now publicly 
embraced eradication as an important element of GOP policy 
and taken a tough line against negotiations with cocaleros. 
DEVIDA's Romulo Pizarro has changed his position and now 
states that eradication is non-negotiable.  At a March 30 
press conference, Garcia said he would not retreat a 
"millimeter" in the narcotics fight.  On April 2, Garcia made 
a dramatic speech that distanced the government from the 
Tocache Accord (Ref A).  Garcia expanded on two themes: his 
concern over increased drug abuse by Peruvian youth, and 
politicians who had not acted against drug mafias for fear of 
unpopularity.  If Peru could not stop expanding 
narcotrafficking, he warned, it could face an insurgency 
similar to that which occurred in a "neighboring country." 
 
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CORAH WORKER KILLED BY S.L. SNIPERS; FIVE POLICE WOUNDED 
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6. (U)  On April 12 while conducting interdiction and 
eradication operations in the vicinity of Churuyacu, Maranon 
province, Huanuco Department, CORAH workers and its PNP 
security escort were ambushed by an unknown number of 
suspected Sendero Luminoso cadre.  One CORAH worker was 
killed and five DIRANDRO personnel were wounded by gunfire. 
According to CORAH workers at the scene, the attack involved 
automatic and semi-automatic rifle fire from all four 
quadrants, suggesting the attackers were pre-positioned and 
waiting.  The casualties were evacuated by dusk.  Both CORAH 
and PNP security forces remained in the field.  The PNP 
believes the attackers were part of the Sendero Luminoso (SL) 
column that operates in the Aucayacu area (Ref D). 
 
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THREE DIRANDRO TEAMS OPERATE THE COCA-GROWING REGIONS 
--------------------------------------------- --------- 
7. (U)  To date, DIRANDRO has destroyed 121 
cocaine-production laboratories and seized 207,558 kg of 
chemical precursors, 3,700 kg of cocaine base, and 2,057 kg 
of HCl cocaine.  The DIRANDRO special operations group 
consists of three different teams.  The first one specializes 
in interdiction (destroying cocaine-production labs and 
precursor chemicals) and intelligence gathering.  This team 
seizes the vast majority of drugs and chemicals. 
 
8. (U)  The second team is charged with securing the 
perimeter during eradication operations and providing 
security support for the eradicators and base camp.  The 
third team is the road interdiction team, which operates 
throughout the coca-growing region, depending on 
intelligence.  They set up roving checkpoints and inspect all 
types of vehicles.  About 20 percent of the precursor 
chemicals seizures are done by this team. 
 
9. (SBU)  The interdiction-eradication operation that took 
place in the Yanajanca area, 12 cocaine-production 
laboratories were destroyed.  In the first days of 
eradication in Yanajanca (April 6-7), the canine unit 
detected improvised explosive devices that were removed with 
no injuries.  On April, 26-27, DIRANDRO personnel based in 
Mazamari and Palma Pampa destroyed 10 cocaine-production 
laboratories during operations in Boca Mantaro-Canaire in the 
VRAE.  On April 5, members of a PNP special operations group 
arrested six of their fellow PNP officers as they attempted 
to extort money from a Spanish national who reportedly came 
to Lima to purchase and export 3,000 kg of cocaine HCl. (Ref 
E). 
 
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AVIATION SUPPORT AFFECTED BY "SL" AND COCALERO STRIKES 
--------------------------------------------- ---------- 
10. (U) The number of helicopter hours flown has increased 
significantly for interdiction and eradication operations 
with CORAH's move to the Yanajanca area, a known Sendero 
Luminoso (SL) stronghold.  The risk of combat has been 
increasing daily.  In the attack that killed the CORAH worker 
(see Para 6), the helicopters were initially unable to land 
because of the heavy gunfire.  The helicopter crews were able 
to provide some suppressing fire with their M-60D machine 
guns, firing approximately 1500 rounds of ammunition.  On 
another occasion, a PNP security patrol was transported by 
helicopter to an area where they stumbled into a suspected SL 
base camp and detained 15 suspects. 
 
11. (U)  With the cocaleros on strike and blocking the roads 
to Santa Lucia, getting aviation fuel became a critical 
issue.  Fuel trucks were offered police escorts, but the 
owners refused because of death threats.  Some of the bridges 
had also been damaged or destroyed.  In situations such as 
this, MI-17 helicopters would normally be used to ferry fuel 
from Tingo Maria, but all were down for repair.  The pilots 
of the PNP Antonov 32 aircraft then offered to transport the 
fuel even though the Santa Lucia runaway was being repaired 
and was thus shorter than what is normally required for that 
size of aircraft.  The offer of the PNP Antonov 32 pilots was 
highly unusual and unexpected, but thanks to them there was 
sufficient fuel to continue operations. 
 
12. (SBU)  The cocaleros did not seem to be aware that the 
strikes and roadblocks could have shut down NAS and GOP CN 
operations due to lack of aviation fuel.  NAS always prepares 
alternate routes for fuel and supply trucks, but in some 
cases the options are limited to one or two possibilities. 
 
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FAP AND PNP COORDINATION MAKES BETTER USE OF C-26S 
--------------------------------------------- ------ 
13. (U)  Increased coordination between DIRANDRO and FAP 
intelligence has the C-26 providing more support for 
interdiction and eradication operations.  The C-26 attempted 
to detect nocturnal movement of potentially hostile vehicles 
and personnel moving toward CORAH and DIRANDRO positions.  In 
a "first-ever" joint operation, DIRANDRO personnel 
participated in the C-26 missions as observers to assist in 
the FLIR collection effort.  Operating out of the FAP base in 
Talara, the C-26 used FLIR to detect possible 
narcotrafficking activity along northern Peru's coast in 
support of Phase Two of "Operation All Inclusive". 
 
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NAS-DEA COORDINATION NETS LARGE COCAINE SEIZURES 
--------------------------------------------- ---- 
14. (SBU)  In April, Peruvian counterdrug elements seized a 
total of 2.2 metric tons of cocaine HCL while conducting 
counternarcotics operations at various Peruvian air/seaports, 
coastal maritime locations, roadblocks near land border entry 
stations, customs terminal facilities, and the Peruvian Post 
Office.  The interdiction program at the international 
airport in Lima seized 748 kg of cocaine HCL in 62 incidents. 
 The largest airport seizure was 500 kg of cocaine HCl masked 
in "Maca" (powdered herbal vitamin supplement) seized in air 
cargo on April 2.  During the first four months of 2007, 
nearly 1.9 metric tons of cocaine HCl have been seized and 
266 arrests made at the airport.  This four-month total is 
roughly equal to the amount seized in all of 2006, which was 
twice as much as was seized in 2005. 
15. (SBU)  On April 24 at the Port of Callao, Peruvian 
Customs seized a container carrying 589 kg of cocaine HCl 
masked in 60 tons of barium sulfate.  Eight arrests were 
made, i.e., a Lebanese, a Lithuanian, a Russian, and five 
Peruvians.  The Manifest Review Unit (MRU) provided the 
intelligence that led to this seizure.  On April 21-30 as 
part of Operation "All Inclusive", the Peruvian Air Force and 
Navy conducted joint maritime counterdrug searches for 
Peruvian fishing vessels involved in drug smuggling.  This 
was the first-ever joint counternarcotics operation by the 
two services.  Intelligence has indicated a marked increase 
in drug transshipments via fishing vessels off the Peruvian 
coast, and this operation marks the beginning of a new 
emphasis on Peru's northern coast. 
 
16. (SBU)  Peruvian Customs (SUNAT) conducted border 
roadblocks during Operation "All Inclusive" this month. 
Using a mobile x-ray van, ion-scans, and drug-sniffing dogs, 
joint SUNAT/PNP teams inspected vehicles using different 
points of entry into Ecuador.  Several loads of contraband 
were seized, i.e., 108,611 gallons of gasoline, smuggled 
cultural patrimony items, USD 48,515 in counterfeit dollars, 
a drug lab/distribution center, and 752 kg of sulfuric acid. 
Thirty-nine U.S.-bound Chinese with false passports were 
detained.  Due to the lawlessness along the Peru-Ecuador 
border, SUNAT has not conducted interdiction operations there 
for the last five years.  Only 37.35 kg of cocaine was seized 
during this operation; however, SUNAT is willing to 
participate in more joint operations in the area.  In 
addition, during the month of April, the Peruvian Post Office 
(SERPOST) interdicted over 70 kg of cocaine HCL that was 
being exported in 47 postal shipments. 
 
17. (SBU)  Peruvian CN police conducted two seizures in the 
Iquitos port area on the Amazon River.  On April 13, 66 kg of 
cocaine HCL was seized.  On April 15, 220 kg of cocaine HCL 
was found in false compartments in boats.  NAS only supports 
intelligence-driven operations in the ports in Iquitos, i.e., 
one official and four non-official ports with the 
non-official ports being larger and more heavily used than 
the official port. 
 
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NAS IS CREATING HOW-TO MANUALS FOR ANTI-DRUG COALITIONS 
--------------------------------------------- ----------- 
18. (U)  The NAS Demand Reduction team is working with 
CRESER, a local NGO, to develop six how-to manuals (or 
toolkits) to teach people how to organize and run a community 
anti-drug coalition (CAC).  On April 10-13, CRESER conducted 
workshops to solicit input from community members of the six 
CACs as well as from the NGO technical assistance teams.  It 
is important that the manuals are written with the community 
members in mind.  The manuals will express concepts in terms 
and examples appropriate for a Peruvian audience.  The word 
usage and illustrations will take into consideration people's 
reading ability.  Before each of the six manuals is produced, 
CRESER will test and validate them again with the community 
members.  The first manual should be ready for publication by 
the end of June. 
 
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PERU PUSHES NEW CRIME CODE AND ASSET FORFEITURE LAWS 
--------------------------------------------- -------- 
19. (U)  In April, President Allan Garcia announced that he 
wanted to speed up the timetable for implementing the new 
accusatory criminal code throughout Peru.  To help with this 
process, NAS assisted the Peruvian Attorney General's staff 
in the introductory phase of implementing the code in 
Trujillo, the capital of the Department of La Libertad.  This 
is the GOP's first effort to expand beyond the small pilot 
program in the Department of Huara.  NAS also contributed to 
the Justice Ministry's campaign to create a non-penal asset 
forfeiture law by organizing a roundtable and workshop for 
Congressmen and their aides on the use of asset forfeiture as 
a legal tool against drug trafficking and organized crime. 
STRUBLE