As a matter of fact, Sendero Luminoso butchered cocanine producers and cocoa leaf growers before their founder and leader Abdimael Guzzman was arrested and jailed.

Going into the protection business is a fairly recent development and has been very profitable inasmuch as most of the cocaine processed by the cartels in Columbia come from leaf grown in Peru.

Further, the number one source of foreign exchange for Peru comes from the industry that has grown up around cocaine.

Sad.

In this country, much of the drug distribution is divided between the street gangs belonging to Peoples Nation and Folk Nation. And remember illegal drug sales in the US are $ 80 billion per year.

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