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UNCLAS LIMA 000544 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR INL/LP AND WHA/PPC 
ONDCP FOR LTCOL RONALD GARMEN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
SUBJECT: NAS LIMA END OF MONTH REPORT - MARCH 
 
1.(U) Summary: 
- Eradication Report 
- Aviation Report 
- Maritime/Ports Report 
- Police Report 
- Community Anti-Drug Coalitions go National 
- Case Update on Valdez and Lorente - Extradition Requests 
- New Vice Ministry Leads GOP Counter Narcotics Effort 
 
 
 
Eradication Report 
 
¶2. (U) Eradication operations continued in the San Martin 
region during the month of March.  CORAH eradicated 905.68 
hectares of coca bringing the year to date total to 1227.55 
hectares.  Over 71 percent of the coca eradicated were 
replanted fields that had been previously eradicated less 
than two years ago. 
 
Aviation Report 
 
¶3. (U) Five NAS UH2 assets support counter narcotics and 
interdiction operations in the Apurimac/Ene/River Valley 
(VRAE).  NAS Aviation supported 
the recover of a Peruvian Army crew after their Antonov 28 
lost power and was forced to make an emergency landing. 
Crew and aircraft survived with no injury to the crew and 
minor damage to the aircraft. 
 
¶4. (U) Dyncorp International program manager for Peru and 
other personnel visit during the month of March.  An 
evaluation of Air Police education and training was conducted 
to 
determine what is needed to graduate qualified aviation 
mechanics in Peru so as to save on having to send them to 
the US for training. 
 
 
Maritime/Ports Program Report 
 
¶5. (U) The Maritime/Ports program conducted 
training with DRIANDRO Ports and SUNAT personnel on the 
newly arrived Backscatter scanner system and ten ion 
scanners.  This backscatter system will be used to scan for 
drugs, explosives and weapons in seagoing containers, 
vehicles, and trucks.  Once the training is complete, the 
new system will be deployed to GOP Counter drug forces at 
land, air, and sea ports of entry. 
 
¶6. (U) During the month of March, counter drug units at the 
international airport, seaports, postal system and land 
ports of entry seized 414.257 kilos of cocaine 
HCL.  Cases of note are as follows: 160 kilos of cocaine 
bricks found in bags of paprika and destined for shipment 
out of the port of Paita were seized from a warehouse near 
Lima;  at the port of Paita, the ionscan uncovered 68.616 
kilos of cocaine disguised as coffee beans;  71.118 kilos 
of cocaine was discovered by the body scanners, ionscans, 
and K9 units at the international airport;  known as a 
"rip off load,"  28 kilos of cocaine brinks were 
discovered inside a piece of luggage that was to be placed 
inside a container just prior to its shipment. 
 
 
Police Report 
 
¶7. (U) Counter drug operations destroyed 286 
rustic and three HCL laboratories; seized 9.4 metric tons 
of chemical precursors; 1.4 metric tons of cocaine paste; 
and 1.5 metric tons of HCL cocaine. Of the 286 rustic 
laboratories, 114 were destroyed in the VRAE and Huallaga. 
 
¶8. (U) Over six hundred students entered the PNP Police 
pre-academies in Santa Lucia, Ayacucho, Mazamari, and Tingo 
Maria.  25 of the newly enrolled students are from the 
indigenous population.  To support and encourage indigenous 
participation, NAS has coordinated with the local chapter 
of Catholic Relief Services to provide meals and 
lodging for these particular students. 
 
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions Go National 
 
¶9. (U) Beginning in November of 2008, NAS Programs created 
seven new Community Anti-Drug Coalitions (CAC) east of the 
Andes, specifically in Tocache, Ayacucho, Tingo Maria, 
Huanaco, and Pucallpa.  NAS Programs had the opportunity to 
visit each new Coalition during the visit of INL/DR 
contractor CADCA to conduct capacity building training and 
monitor progress.  The training sessions focused on 
reinforcing the core elements of the strategic prevention 
framework and was attended, on average, by 35 or so CAC 
members.  Each CAC reports membership numbers between 50 
and 60 members.  These visits received intense media 
interest in each city resulting in media coverage in print, 
internet, radio, and television for four days.  The 
reporting was positive and raised the visibility of each 
coalition.   Regional and national government 
representatives attended the training in each city to 
include the local mayors in Ayacucho and Tingo Maria. 
 
Case Update on Valdez and Lorente - Extradition Requests 
 
¶10. (U)  A Panamanian prosecutor has requested the 
extradition of Luis Valdez - ex mayor of Ucayali currently 
under investigation and in custody for money laundering and 
drug trafficking in Peru- on money laundering charges and 
drug trafficking in Panama.   GOP has approved a Colombian 
request to extradite Adalberto Raul Lorente on 
drug trafficking charges. 
 
New Vice Ministry Leads GOP Counter Narcotics Effort 
 
¶11. (U)  As of March 24, the Ministry of the Interior has 
been modified, under Law 29334, to include two Vice 
ministries: the Vice Ministry of Institutional Management 
and the Vice Ministry of Internal Order.  Among other 
functions, the Vice Ministry of Internal Order has the GOP 
lead on counter narcotics. 
MCKINLEY