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Peru
Seizes About 130 Kg Of Cocaine
LIMA - The Peruvian
authorities seized a total of 129.94kg basic
cocaine paste in the Apurimac and Ene Rivers
Valley (VRAE), Peru's top coca-producing
valley, a police chief said on Sunday.
In a raid on drug traffickers on Saturday,
police seized 121.24kg of drugs in a van in
the Pichari district in the Cusco Region and
detained the driver and his companion,
Colonel of the National Police Hector Silva
said.
Meanwhile, in Huanta city, Ayacucho
province, a women with 8.7 kg of cocaine
hydrochlorate was detained when she was
boarding a passenger vehicle.
The VRAE is an area where the four provinces
of Ayacucho, Apurimac, Cusco and Junin abut.
It is one of the zones with the highest
yield of illegal coca leaves in the country.
Peru is the second largest producer of coca
leaves worldwide, producing more than 300
tons of cocaine annually, an average 10
percent of which is seized.
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