Peru scraps state of emergency after 30 years
Peru President Ollanta Humala has announced that the state of emergency in the region of upper Huallaga River will soon be lifted after 30 years. The area of rugged mountains and dense forests along the river has been a center of illegal coca cultivation for decades. It was also the scene of violence perpetrated by the Maoist insurgency Shining Path, the leader of which Florindo Eleuterio Flores, nicknamed ‘Comrade Artemio’, was captured in 2012.