Peru's military questioned over drug flight plague
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Three years after Peru became the world's leading cocaine producer, small planes are ferrying more than a ton a day to Bolivia right under the military's nose.
While drug corruption is rife in Peru, the narco-flight plague represents a failure of its armed forces, which control the remote jungle valley where most of the Andean nation's cocaine originates.
Prosecutors, narcotics police, former military officers and current and former U.S. drug agents say the armed forces have largely turned a blind eye as flights picked up in tempo in the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro river valley..
