Interior Minister, Octavio Salazar announced this week the development of a plan to strengthen the fight against drug trafficking in the Amazon rain forest called, it will include the installation of new counternarcotics bases in a wide swath of territory adjoining between Peru, Brazil and Colombia. said to the effect that implements a specific base in the town of Santa Rosa (Iquitos), where it plans to develop a series of joint operations with police in Brazil and Colombia.
regard, said that these operations will cover the area of \u200b\u200bSanta Rosa by the Peruvian side, Tabatinga Brazil belongs, and a wide expanse of territory in Leticia (Colombia).
"This is what is called the Amazon rain forest, where they will develop major operations against drug trafficking."
further said that Peru plans to install an important base in the area of \u200b\u200bAyabaca (Piura ), for which they are made to coordinate with the Police of Ecuador and the U.S. DEA itself.
also argued that open another anti-narcotics base at Sandia (located in the VRAE), as well as that is the point Siguas Monsoon income to the side of Huaraz.
"With these new bases will have much more control, the war against crime in whatever form is a matter of space and more space will undoubtedly have to cover that we will ensure greater state presence, and that will lead to more seizures. "
Octavio Salazar also said that in the coming days would be news about the location of Jose Francisco Crousillat.
He said that a group of police officers and would be in a place where the information come from regarding the whereabouts of the fugitive businessman.
Octavio Salazar appeared before the Foreign Relations Committee of Congress to discuss about the control exercised and the actions taken by the sector in relation to foreigners who enter our country through the airports and borders.