Huallaga

Ambassador Lisa Kenna announced an additional $8 million in U.S. support for coca eradication efforts in the remote Upper Huallaga valley.

Under Humala, eradication teams largely cleared the plants from the Upper Huallaga Valley, the cradle of the cocaine trade, but many cocaleros moved elsewhere.

Secretary of State has listed as a terrorist organization since October 1997, is divided into “geographically distinct factions in South Central Peru,” per the indictment: Flores-Hala led the faction in the Upper Huallaga Valley, and Victor Quispe-Palomino led the faction in the Apurimac and Ene River valleys.

The Sendero funds its terrorist activities with money from the cocaine trade -- by controlling “all aspects” of the market in the Upper Huallaga and Apurimac areas, prosecutors allege.

Interior Minister Walter Alban said the sweep on Wednesday night was the result of a two-year investigation involving phone taps and undercover agents that established a link between Movadef and guerrillas in the coca-producing Huallaga Valley.