Introduction: Peru’s government continues to tout the success of its anti-drug strategy, highlighting the amount of drugs seized and coca crops eradicated during the previous year, as it ramps up its 2020 campaign.

The Interior Ministry reported that police officers seized 63 tons of drugs in 2019, well above the goal of 37 tons for the year. Eradication brigades (Corah) also beat their target, destroying 25,525 hectares of coca, from which cocaine is produced, in the 11 months through the end of 2019. The target for the year, as with the two previous years, was eradicating 25,000 hectares.