Global Ganja Report

Police in Peru said Aug. 3 they had destroyed more than 50 tons of cannabis following a five-day operation that uncovered a record 207,000 plants in two central regions of the country. Interior Minister Wilfredo Pedraza said the operation led to the burning of 17 times more cannabis than had been destroyed in all of 2011. National Police Director Gen. Raúl Salazar said a total of 34.5 hectares (85.25 acres) of cannabis plantations had been destroyed in the La Libertad and Huánuco regions. Gen. Salazar said police have identified the financial brains behind the plantations and were moving in on him. (BBC News,* Aug. 3)

* BBC News, one of the few sources to cover this in English, incorrectly renders  Huánuco as "Huanaco." A huanaco is not a region of Peru, but a native Peruvian camelid related to the llama.

Graphic:  US State Department

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