Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$829.3 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.4% (2004)
Transnational Issues Peru
Disputes - international:
Peru proposes changing its latitudinal maritime boundary with Chile
to an equidistance line with a southwestern axis; organized illegal
narcotics operations in Colombia have penetrated Peru's shared
border; Peru does not support Bolivia's claim to restore maritime
access through a sovereign corridor through Chile along the Peruvian
border
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 60,000 (civil war from 1980-2000; most IDPs are indigenous
peasants in Andean and Amazonian regions) (2004)
Illicit drugs:
until 1996 the world's largest coca leaf producer; emerging opium
producer; cultivation of coca in Peru fell 15 percent to 31,150
hectares between 2002 and the end of 2003; much of the cocaine base
is shipped to neighboring Colombia for processing into cocaine,
while finished cocaine is shipped out from Pacific ports to the
international drug market; increasing amounts of base and finished
cocaine, however, are being moved to Brazil and Bolivia for use in
the Southern Cone or transshipped to Europe and Africa
This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005
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