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Peru: “We need to focus more on social development and less in military force” says Minister Otarola

The Peruvian government plans to focus more on development than the use of military force to curb drug trafficking in the region, said the new defense minister, Alberto Otarola.

According to Reuters, Otarola said that Peru needs to invest in infrastructure and social programs in the region of the Valley of the Apurimac and Ene Rivers . At least ten soldiers and policemen were killed in the forest region in the last two years in confrontation with drug traffickers and members of the Shining Path terrorist group.

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