Is A Drug Insurgency Growing In Peru?

Peru Rebels Vow More Attacks In Drug Zone -- Yahoo News/Reuters

LIMA (Reuters) – Leftist rebels in Peru will launch more attacks against the army, a commander of a remnant band of Shining Path guerrillas said after their eleventh deadly ambush in rugged coca-growing regions this year.

"We will fight militarily those who defend imperialism and the government, and they are the armed forces and the police," Victor Quispe Palomino, who identified himself by his rebel name, Comrade Jose, said in a call to a radio station.

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13 Peruvian Troops Killed in Ambushes -- New York Times
13 Peruvian soldiers killed in rebel ambush -- AFP

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