World IN BRIEF : PERU : U.S. to Train Army in Guerrilla Warfare
From Times staff and Wire reports
The United States plans to build a training base where U.S. soldiers will instruct the Peruvian army in jungle warfare to fight leftist rebels, a U.S. Embassy official said. The new base will be built in the coca-rich Upper Huallaga Valley as part of a $35-million U.S. military aid package. The aid is part of President Bush’s strategy announced in September to fight the flow of drugs from Andean nations.
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