Peru begins state of emergency at the border with Colombia

The Government of Peru began on Monday the state of emergency that will last 60 days in the Amazonian province of Putumayo, on the border with Colombia, for the presumed presence of dissidents of former guerrillas and traffickers. FARC drug in Peru. ] The declared emergency territory is located on the right bank of the Putumayo River, which divides Peru and Colombia, and belongs to the Loreto region, the largest in the country.

The exception is the suspension of constitutional rights relating to personal liberty and security, the inviolability of the home and the freedom of badembly and transit through the territory, as reported by the Efe News Agency.

Peru (PNP) will be in charge of the maintenance of the internal order, with the possible support of the Peruvian army.

The measure is intended to discourage the possible presence in this conflict zone. FARC leaders and drug traffickers, according to military sources, said Monday in Peruvian newspaper El Comercio

According to the same newspaper, a 19-year-old Colombian identified as Neider Jhonny Machacury Jota was arrested in April. April in the vicinity of a school in the municipality of Teniente Manuel Clavero, when he offered to two miners to join the ranks of the FARC in exchange for money and instruction in the handling of weapons.

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