The high-ranking official indicated that drug trafficking generates a high degree of corruption, not only among the civilian population, as it also involves the National Police, the Armed Forces, and local authorities.
Therefore, he said, it is necessary to rely on more information and intelligence, as well as to rethink actions such as non-lethal aerial interdiction.
The Cabinet member specified that, although due to strategy, he cannot provide further details, there is the implementation of eight aircraft that will allow this type of action to be carried out for the intervention of small airplanes that enter our country illegally.
"I am convinced that air interdiction is professional enough and has enough protocols to avoid conducting it in a lethal manner," he affirmed.
Moreover, Minister Chavez Cresta indicated that 700 flights of illegal origin had taken place as of July.
He added that the procedure will be to locate the aircraft and ask the flight crew to withdraw from Peruvian airspace.
Publicado: 17/8/2023