On July 3, 2025, Santa Rosa became district of the province of Mariscal Castilla (Loreto). For 82 years, the island belonged to Yavarí’s jurisdiction. The settlers doubt that the conversion to district by the Boluarte government, benefits them. And they are right.
In 2021, when Dina Boluarte assumed the presidency, the budget assigned to Yaraví, He reached S/10.2 million. For this year, the amount, instead of increasing, was reduced. He dropped to S/6.5 million. That is, around S/3.7 million less. That is why the islanders do not trust that the conversion to district will benefit them.
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On February 6 of this year, the then Interior Minister Juan Santiváñez brought a fleet of motorcycles to the police post of Santa Rosa. But what you need is a greater endowment of troops, internet connection and boats with powerful engines to especially persecute drug traffickers and terrorists who swarm in the triple border.
“What are the bikes to serve if 90% of the operations against organized crime are river.
A jungle hell
The Police perform functions in Santa Rosa in deplorable conditionsalthough it is a nerve point of the border with Colombia and Brazil. In the area there are abounding drug trafficking organizations and armed groups that belonged to the FARC terrorist group (Colombia Revolutionary Armed Forces), as well as bands of wooden carriers, human trafficking and illegal mining. In the area the main communication channels are rivers, but police logistics are very limited to combat criminals.
The head of the Santa Rosa police post is the PNP PNP Renzo Choquepata Zúñiga, with whom the total number of troops total. Of this number, Only 10 of them fulfill criminal investigation taskstransit, family violence among other crimes. More or less, a policeman for every 300 inhabitants.
However, in addition to the police personnel deficit, the endowment lacks boats capable of chasing criminals.
“We only have one ‘chalupa’ (boat) aged and diminished. And so we cannot deal with criminal organizations. We are practically limited,” said another police cash that also requested to keep his identity in reserve.
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According to reports from the police station itself, Most frequent crimes in Santa Rosa, is drug traffickingthe smuggling of products that come from Colombia and Brazil to Peruvian territory, aggravated theft and human trafficking.
“For example, when the detainees have to be transferred to Cabalcocha for the proceedings, many times the ‘chalupa’ is not available due to the frequencies failures due to its age. Several times we have been stranded in the middle of the Amazon River. When we ask for reinforcements to the command, they do not immediately arrive due to the great distances, and in that waiting period, anything could happen,” said a third police officer.
The residents of the island and the police think that the Santa Rosa Foundation as a district does not change anything, unless the perception of the Government Palace changes with respect to the extreme importance of reinforcing the police service in the town.
He Santa Rosa Police Station is at a distance of up to three hours by Rio de Cabalocochaand depends specifically on the local police station, and is in turn the fourth macro police region of Iquitos.
“In Santa Rosa there is no prosecution, there is no public ministry, or judges. All proceedings with the detainees is carried out in Cabalococha,” said the police.
The sources indicated that the head of the Loreto police region, General PNP Fernando Mego Avellaneda, requires the troops of the Santa Rosa position, to execute operations in the area. But with A single 30 -year boat boat, little or nothing can face criminal organizations that have modern and greater draft boats.
“As police officers we are prepared one hundred percent, but if we do not have the tools and logistics resources, we are tied from hands and crime will continue to increase due to the fault of the government,” said a noncommissioned officer of the investigation section of the Santa Rosa position.
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In the same town a base of the Department of Anti -Drug Tactical Operations (Depotad) has also been enabled, whose essential work is to destroy criminal drug trafficking organizations in the Amazonian trapeze.
Although Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian drug traffickers have converted EM Amazonas as the main route to transfer chemical inputs, basic pasta and cocaine, Authorities of the Ministry of Interior and the National Police have only assigned 8 anti -drug agents. In addition, 2 boats and limited fuel endowments for river operations have been provided.
“We must have faster boats, because drug traffickers mobilize in modern boats with 300 HP engines, which are more powerful than ours and in a persecution they take us as a meeting,” said a depotad agent.
The situation is more serious because, according to the perception of anti -drug agents, drug trafficking organizations have enormous influence on the Amazonian trapeze.
“Santa Rosa is controlled by organized crime because there is no presence of the State. The State has told organized crime that is taken care of the Amazon.
In Santa Rosa there are drug coves and enough criminal activity of drug trafficking. Here the mafias make their coordination, ”Depotad sources informed the Republic.
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“And why? Because behind Santa Rosa Island, in the communities of Mario Rivera, Quebrada de Sacambu, Calluru, Santa Rita and Bellavista, There are huge extensions of coca leafy plants.
And where there are sowments of coca leaf we will find clandestine laboratories, traffic of chemical inputs and other activities that drug trafficking entails, ”added the sources.
Anti -Drug Intelligence agents have identified intense activity of the “Vermelho Command”from Brazil, which controls and monopolizes the Amazonian route in alliance with the “border command”, of Colombia, which have come to move to the triple border mafias, including “the tastings” and “Los Ureños”, which had a presence in the area.
“The Vermelho and the border commands have found in Peruvian territory a better area to produce cocaine in large quantities, because they are supplied with fuel from Iquitos,” said the sources.
“Our situation is so precarious that we have to pay internet consumption. With that we say everything,” said an anti -drug agent to the Republic.
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10 criminal organizations operate
- According to the sources of the Dirandro, there are ten criminal organizations that operate in the area.
- “Now there is no war, what there is is alliance between the mafias. The war is on the Brazilian side, in Tabatinga, because they have no green light of the Vermelho command to operate,” the sources explained.
- “Santa Rosa is an area of high danger because it is controlled and administered by organized crime,” the sources added.
