The new plan is intended to sustain the assault on Colombia's coca industry while preventing its revival in Peru, Bolivia and elsewhere.

ECONOMIST: The drug war

He was arrested in Santiago on Sunday on arrival from his home in Tokyo and remains detained while awaiting a ruling on his extradition to Peru.

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Mr Castro is still recovering from breaking an arm and leg last month, while Chile's Ricardo Lagos and Peru's Alejandro Toledo are in Chile for the Apec summit.

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While mining provides relatively few jobs, it is vital to Peru's economy in other ways.

ECONOMIST: Big mining and its increasingly radical opponents

Based in Pheonix, Phelps Dodge has copper mining operations in the U.S., Chile, Peru and Congo, while New Orleans-based Freeport operates the vast open-pit Grasberg gold, copper, and silver mine in Indonesia, and has reserves of about 37 billion pounds of copper and 40 million ounces of gold.

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Last month the Constitutional Tribunal, Peru's highest court, ruled that exploration should halt in the protected area while the government comes up with a development plan.

ECONOMIST: A scramble for land sets investors against locals