1. While professional gangs usually handle the trafficking, guerrillas tax drug harvests and charge landing fees at jungle airstrips. 2. Air routes disrupted, drug pilots turn to short, low-altitude flights using a network of jungle airstrips. 3. In February, the Peruvian army seized nearly three tons of cocaine paste at a jungle airstrip. 4. Now drug pilots are increasingly making short, low-altitude flights using a network of jungle airstrips. 5. The plane was found at a remote Colombian jungle airstrip a few months later. 6. They forced it to land on a remote jungle airstrip where hundreds of guerrillas hauled the occupants deep into rebel-held territory. |