LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's Congress unanimously passed legislation on Thursday that would allow the military to shoot down unauthorised aircraft suspected of smuggling narcotics, a policy banned in 2001 that the United States has opposed.
The measure aims to clamp down on a growing number of flights carrying cocaine cargos out of Peru. Peru and the United States estimate that most of the country's cocaine is now sent abroad in small planes.
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