Henry Peeters paintings

Henry Peeters paintings
Hessam Abrishami paintings
Since the early 1990s, Peru has been a key South American ally in the United States' war on drug trafficking. Once the world's leading producer of coca leaf, the raw material used to make cocaine, Peru supplied Colombia's Medellin and Cali drug organizations. Much of that cocaine went to the United States, the world's biggest consumer of the drug.The Peru military has since shot down about 25 suspected drug planes on their way to Columbian cocaine refineries from the coca-growing regions of Peru's Amazon.This is the second time the US has had a "situation" with Peru. In April 1992 the Peruvians shot down a US Air Force C-130 flying off the Pacific coast, claiming they thought it was running drugs.The missionaries' plane was en route from the Brazil-Peru border to the city of Iquitos, about 625 miles northeast of Lima, when it was attacked, a spokesman for the Association of Baptists for World Evangelists said.