The cocaine traffic is another story.
Shining Path, which has its main base in the Andean highlands, has exploited the cocaine traffic to open a new military front.
"The cocaine traffic involves millions of dollars in very poor areas."
Suriname, I later learned, is one of the many stopover points for cocaine traffic from Colombia to the rest of the world.
The fugitive who once controlled by violence most of the hemisphere's cocaine traffic has himself died violently.
That drug ring is believed to control more than 70 percent of the cocaine traffic in the United States.
The corrupting influence of an expanding cocaine traffic makes things worse.
In 1993, he was sent to jail for cocaine traffic, which interrupted his career.
Page 1 Bolivia's cocaine business is back, just six weeks after the departure of American troops who were helping to curb cocaine traffic.
By 1949, Callao was known as one of the biggest centers of coca-based products and cocaine traffic in the world.