Chancellor Óscar Maúrtua considers that expelling the DEA would be negative for the fight against drugs in Peru Guido Bellido nndc | POLITICS

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (RREE), Óscar Maúrtua, Denied that the Executive had planned to expel the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), as proposed months ago by the head of the PCM, Guido Bellido.

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“I would like to stress that such a fact (expulsion from the DEA) would be counterproductive because U.S. anti-narcotics cooperation is critical and amounts to $ 75-80 million annually.“, Explained Maúrtua before the Congress Foreign Relations Committee.

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The Minister also highlighted the association of the US organization with Peruvian institutions in order to eradicate illicit drug trafficking.

“This is crucial for the implementation of the national drug policy. I also emphasize that the DEA has maintained a close relationship, for many years, with the National Commission for Development and Life (due), as the governing body against the fight against drugs, the Ministry of the Interior, the Police National of Peru, the direction Drugs (Dirandro), SUNAT, customs, among others national sectors that give decisive support against the illicit drug trafficking“, He expressed.

The presentation of Maúrtua de Romanya before the parliamentary working group led by Ernesto Bustamante (Força Popular) took place after it became known that Guido Bellido proposed, last February during a virtual forum, to dismiss the DEA, legalize the coca leaf and continue the model that Evo Morales applied in Bolivia.

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“They Settle with the Tale of Drug Trafficking (USA) wants our farmers to stop cultivating the coca leaf. A Free Peru government the first thing it has to do is withdraw the US embassy from Peru, end all kinds of relations with the US because its role in Peru is more than beneficial is harmful, we need to withdraw from the DEA of our country“Bellido said at the time.

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