Overview
- Security forces from both countries executed a coordinated operation on January 25 in San José de Loreto Yacu, a remote Yagua village in Peru’s Ramón Castilla district on the Amazon triple frontier.
- Police anti-drug units located and demolished four clandestine laboratories, two of them active, and incinerated more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine base.
- Authorities destroyed thousands of kilograms of chemical precursors, including about 3,100 kg of sulfuric acid, along with gasoline, caustic soda, ammonium sulfate, urea, cement, and a ton of prepared fuel mix.
- Troops burned wooden camps and four aluminum river boats, seized firearms and cartridges, and neutralized communications gear including two Starlink terminals, radios, a cellphone, and documents.
- Officials valued the dismantled logistics at roughly S/1.5 million (about $422,000), noting the district counted more than 4,000 hectares of coca crops in 2024.