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### Viewing cable 09LIMA1667, Peru Signs Counternarcotics Information Sharing Agreement

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09LIMA1667 | 2009-11-25 18:06 | 2011-02-17 00:12 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Lima
Appears in these articles: http://elcomercio.pe/politica/715001/noticia-wikileaks-peru-pidio-ayuda-fbi-combatir-narcos-mexicanos

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L LIMA 001667

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 2019/11/25
    TAGS: SNAR MX PE
    SUBJECT: Peru Signs Counternarcotics Information Sharing Agreement
    with Mexico

    CLASSIFIED BY: Robert C Ward, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, STATE, NARCOTIC
    AFFAIRS SEC...

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L LIMA 001667

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 2019/11/25
    TAGS: SNAR MX PE
    SUBJECT: Peru Signs Counternarcotics Information Sharing Agreement
    with Mexico

    CLASSIFIED BY: Robert C Ward, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, STATE, NARCOTIC
    AFFAIRS SECTION; REASON: 1.4(B), (D)

    ¶1.        (C) Summary:  On November 6, officials in the Peruvian
    and Mexican Governments signed an agreement in Mexico City designed
    to improve coordination and cooperation to fight crime.    For
    Peru, the goal is to obtain intelligence to identify and capture
    Mexican drug traffickers, whose expanded presence in Peru in recent
    years represents a growing threat, according to Peruvian
    authorities.  The Peruvian police participant in the talks provided
    NAS Lima a copy of the agreement and background information on
    Mexicans in Peru.    End Summary.

    ¶2.       (C) On November 13, Peruvian National Police (PNP)
    Anti-Drug (DIRANDRO) XXXXXXXXXXXX
    briefed NAS officers on the recent history of Mexican drug
    traffickers in Peru, and on a new agreement signed by the
    Government of Peru (GOP) and the Government of Mexico (GOM)
    designed to improve intelligence sharing.  XXXXXXXXXXXX was on the GOP
    delegation to Mexico City for talks November 5-6.  This follows a
    GOP-GOM meeting held in Lima in February 2009.  XXXXXXXXXXXX also noted
    that there had been two previous coordination meetings between the
    two governments, in 2001 and 1996.

    ¶3.       (SBU) The purpose of the agreement signed November 6 in
    Mexico City is to "deepen the coordination and cooperation between
    the countries" in order to prevent and combat crime.  The agreement
    establishes a working group which will begin meeting by
    videoconference.  The first session is scheduled to occur December
    ¶9.  Second, the agreement names specific persons who will be the
    liaisons for information exchange.  From Mexico, it will be the
    Head of the National Center for Planning, Analysis and Information
    to Combat Crime (CENAPI).  For Peru, it will be Colonel Cesar Arevalo, the head of the Office of Intelligence of the Anti-Drug Police
    (DIRANDRO).  The agreement also calls for sharing customs-related
    information.  In the accord, Mexico offers to share information
    about its proposal regarding the Hemispheric System to Identify
    Ballistic Fingerprints.  The GOM works with the FBI on this,
    XXXXXXXXXXXX said, adding that Peru is interested in doing the same.

    ¶4.        (SBU) In the agreement Peru expresses interest in
    learning more about the Mexican experience with organized crime,
    and seeks a workshop for police, judges, and prosecutors who are
    specialists in this area.  The GOM commits to sharing with the GOP
    information about specialized training in the field of synthetic
    drug materials and chemical composition.  The GOP invites the GOM
    to a seminar on precursor chemicals to take place in June 2010 in
    Lima, co-hosted by Germany.  Finally, the agreement calls for
    cooperation to reduce the local demand for drugs.  The agreement
    was signed by Maestra Marisela Morales Ibanez, the Assistant
    Prosecutor of Investigation into Organized Crime in Mexico, and by
    Romulo Pizarro, the head of the National Commission for Development
    and Life Without Drugs (DEVIDA) in Peru.

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    Mexicans in Peru
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    ¶5.        (C)   Coca cultivation in the Puno region of Peru, on the
    border with Bolivia, is increasing, and Mexicans are behind it,
    XXXXXXXXXXXX said.  He noted that in the past year, 1091 Mexicans
    suspected of drug trafficking had entered Peru.  Authorities at
    Lima's international airport now have a computerized program that
    contains samples of real and fraudulent documents from many
    countries, allowing for better detection.  Also, very soon Peruvian
    authorities will have the ability to run the names of passengers
    through a database with Interpol.  Despite these advances, XXXXXXXXXXXX
    noted that many drug traffickers enter Peru with fraudulent
    passports, or by private plane that lands in a clandestine
    airstrip, avoiding immigration altogether.  XXXXXXXXXXXX was confident
    that information will be shared by Mexico and Peru more frequently
    and faster as a result of this agreement.

    ¶6.        (C)  XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed that there are no Mexican cartels
    in Peru, but there are "representatives" of the cartels here.
    Their presence, he said, has resulted in a "climate of violence"
    including targeted assassinations.  For example, on June 30, 2005,
    Peruvian judge Mariano de la Cruz released Mexican drug trafficker
    Miguel Morales Morales (aka "Malamud") from prison.  Morales was a
    representative of the Tijuana cartel, according to XXXXXXXXXXXX, and had
    been caught with 1750 kilos of cocaine.  Judge de la Cruz was
    accused of accepting USD 250,000 to free Morales.   XXXXXXXXXXXX also
    cited the case of judge Hernan Saturno Vergara, who was
    assassinated July 19, 2005 presumably by Mexican assassins after
    rejecting a request to set free 25 drug traffickers associated with
    the Tijuana cartel.  A third example offered by XXXXXXXXXXXX was the May
    10, 2007 murder of Mexican drug trafficker Emigdio Alejandro Pineda
    Jimenez in Lima, with newspapers reporting he was suspected of
    stealing 52 kilos of cocaine from the Tijuana cartel.

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    History of Cases
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    ¶7.        (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX cited other notable cases in Peru in the last
    few years connected to Mexican traffickers.  Operation Lena
    (Firewood) in 2002 resulted in the seizure of 6000 kilos of cocaine
    in Arequipa, Peru.  The drug trafficker was Mexican Rafael Alvarez
    Navarro (aka Ricardo Garixax).  The Miraflores Case in 2003
    involved the detention of a Colombian drug trafficker, Manuel
    Rivera Niebla (aka Manuel Lopez Rivas) connected to the Sinaloa
    cartel in Mexico; he was working with Mexican traffickers Ricardo
    Antunez Medina and a Peruvian fisherman, Jose Manuel de la Jara
    Arrue, to export cocaine by boat from Peru to Mexico.  In the Pota
    Case in 2004, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, Mexican police seized seven tons of
    cocaine on the ship Colibri coming from Callao port (Lima); Mexican
    drug trafficker Jorge Perez was the mastermind of the shipment.  In
    the 2005 Maracuya case, Mexican drug trafficker Luis Gabriel Najera
    Estrada was caught trying to ship 408 kilos of cocaine in frozen
    fruits from Peru to Mexico.  In 2006, Bolivian drug trafficker Luis
    Amado Pacheco Abraham was arrested in connection with the seizure
    of 864 kilos of cocaine; years earlier he had been behind the
    attempt to move four metric tons of cocaine to Mexico via Air
    Bolivia.  In 2006, the boat "Ceci" was intercepted going from Peru
    to Mexico with four metric tons of cocaine.  In 2007, Mexican drug
    traffickers Ramon Francisco Guerra Gonzalez, Antonio Avalos
    Valencia, and Enrique Ochoa Garcia were caught with 108 kilos of
    synthetic drugs.  In the Paprika case in 2008, 711 kilos of cocaine
    were found mixed in eight tons of paprika destined for Mexico.
    Four Mexican drug traffickers, Jose Luis Romero Soto, Javier Gomez
    Morales, Ricardo Rivera Landell, and Eric Omar Angulo Urtusuastegui
    were detained in connection with the seizure of 210 kilos of
    cocaine in the Pirana case.  In May 2009, Peruvian flagged vessel
    "Fausaqui 1" was interdicted by a U.S. navy ship and found to have
    250 kilos of cocaine.  In June 2009, Mexican drug trafficker Saulo
    Mauricio Parra Tejada was arrested after police found 106 kilos of
    cocaine in his car.

    ¶8.        (U) XXXXXXXXXXXX provided the following statistics:

    a)      The number of Mexicans who visited Peru in 2008:

    106,590 entered

    105,587 exited

    b)       The number of Mexicans arrested in Peru for drug
    trafficking:

    2003:  5

    2004: 12

    2005: 25

    2006: 17

    2007: 20

    2008: 13

    c)       The quantity of cocaine seized from Mexican passengers
    transiting Peru, in kg:

    2003:     35

    2004:    254

    2005:   2133

    2006:   1192

    2007:    342

    2008:   2256

    d)      Mexicans in prison in Peru for drug trafficking:

    Ricardo Rivera Landell

    Javier Gomez Morales

    Jose Luis Romero Soto

    Erick Angulo Urtusvastegui

    Alfonso Perez Zepeda

    Margarita Zunzunegui Cuellar

    Jose Manuel Arellano Andrade

    Juan Carlos Torrest Ibarra

    Casildo Encinas Cota

    Ivan Alejandro Flores Brindis

    Isaura Marlene Dominguez Herrera

    Marco Antonio Tlahuico Calixto

    Misael Medina Garcia

    Jose Mauricio Gasca Medina

    Carlos Daniel Ballesteros Lugo

    Maria Guadalupe Ruiz Rangel

    Guaalupe Violeta Rocha Ramirez

    Diego Ibanez Herrera

    Ignacio Salvador Sanchez Carrillo

    Eduardo Manzano Munoz

    Aldo Javier Ramirez Gomez

    Victor Emilio Meza Saldana

    Oria Hernandez Acevedo Nishimoto

    Saulo Parra Tejada

    Jorge Velasquez Quiroz

    Andres Mondragon Ruiz

    Ricardo Carlos Barrera Morales

    Jose de Luna Lobato

    ¶9.       (C)  Comment:  The agreement signed November 6 calls for
    cooperation by Peru and Mexico to fight a wide range of criminal
    activity; however, Peru is clearly most focused on identifying and
    capturing Mexican drug traffickers.  According to Peruvian
    authorities, Mexican drug traffickers are expanding their presence
    and operations in Peru.  Most of the Mexican traffickers in prison
    in Peru are low level mules.  Major traffickers (Mexican and other
    nationalities) have eluded Peruvian police.  This agreement
    represents a small step forward in tackling the growing problem of
    increasing presence of Mexican drug traffickers in Peru.

    MCKINLEY

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