I warned GLP of Chinese infiltrators in Peru.

I went to Peru last year and saw dozens of Chinese cells in every town, especially the Nazca area. Now the US Department of Defence also sees them as a threat to our exclusive rights to gold purchases and has threatened Peru with tourism losses.


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"Tourism is an incredibly sensitive topic and they would be damaging a big source of earnings at the national level," he told reporters after a group of mayors met with President Ollanta Humala.

But Likins said the U.S. government is obliged by law to inform its citizens of any information regarding their security. "In this case we received information that we consider reliable," she told RPP radio, without going into the details outlined by the embassy official to the AP.

The Maoist-inspired Shining Path was all but decimated by the time the U.S. State Department designated it as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997. Its remnants now number about 500 and have become an increasingly potent and disciplined fighting force, funding itself by taxing drug traffickers in Peru's coca-growing heartland.