Overview
- A joint task force involving the Comando Especial VRAEM, the Second Infantry Brigade, its air component and DIRANDRO carried out the raid with Anti-Drug Prosecutor personnel present.
- Teams operated near the population centers of Junín, Libertad, Rosario Santillana and Virgen Ccasa in Llochegua, Huanta, Ayacucho.
- Authorities destroyed 23 paste-base facilities and two cocaine hydrochloride mega-laboratories and seized 78 kilograms of cocaine alkaloid.
- Illicit equipment and chemicals were incinerated on site under Decree 1241 with prosecutorial supervision.
- Officials reported no civilian harm and estimated a monthly revenue loss to traffickers of more than S/10 million; a related operation in Pataz dismantled a clandestine gold mine and seized explosives and machinery.