Overview
- The government said on Tuesday that Comando Unificado operations removed 42 clandestine telecommunications antennas from four prisons and led to several arrests, a result President Keiko Fujimori presented as early proof of the campaign against organized crime.
- The Defense Ministry has drafted a bill to allow formal declarations of criminal organizations as 'hostile groups' and is proposing a special prosecutor role to handle intelligence and evidence from joint military-police operations.
- Fujimori traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday to meet President Nayib Bukele and inspect the Cecot megaprison and the ‘Cero ocio’ reinsertion program as part of a fact-finding visit on security and penitentiary practices.
- Human-rights groups and Amnesty International warn that Bukele’s state-of-exception approach has produced mass detentions, deaths in custody and possible rights violations, a trade-off that critics say Peru must weigh before copying Salvadoran measures.
- The trip and the security push come as violent attacks continue at home and the administration approaches its 100-day review, raising questions about costs, ministerial roles and whether pilots like El Milagro and planned military retenes will be expanded under new legal authority.