Editing Camorra (section)

===Peru===
As Peru is one of the largest cocaine producers in the world, the Camorra's interest in the country is entirely related to the drug trafficking.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Peru Now The Biggest Cocaine Producer|url=https://www.nhpr.org/post/peru-now-biggest-cocaine-producer|access-date=2020-06-11|website=www.nhpr.org|date=15 January 2014|language=en}}</ref>

In the 1980s, [[Umberto Ammaturo]], a Camorra affiliate, established a virtual monopoly of cocaine trafficking to Italy from [[Peru]], where he benefited from the protection and collusion of important personalities.<ref name="jamieson">[http://www.bmlv.gv.at/pdf_pool/publikationen/03_jb99_04.pdf Cooperation between organized crime groups around the world] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718153044/http://www.bmlv.gv.at/pdf_pool/publikationen/03_jb99_04.pdf|date=18 July 2011}}, by Alison Jamieson, Jahrbuch für internationale Sicherheitspolitik 1999, December 1999 {{ISBN|3-8132-0599-1}}</ref> According to the US [[Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]], due to his trafficking activities, Ammaturo was one of the chief financiers of the [[Shining Path]] guerrilla movement in Peru.<ref>Behan, The Camorra, pp. 131–132</ref>

One of the leaders of the [[Mazzarella clan]], Salvatore Zazo, was allegedly involved in a large scheme of international cocaine trafficking from Peru to Europe, with the intention to acquire total control of the Port of [[Callao]]; one of his contacts was Gerald Oropeza, one of the biggest drug traffickers in Peru.<ref>{{cite web|date=26 April 2015|title=Gerald Oropeza tendría nexos con capo de la "Camorra Napolitana"|url=https://peru.com/actualidad/mi-ciudad/gerald-oropeza-tendria-nexos-capo-camorra-napolitana-noticia-350055|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151214194406/http://peru.com/actualidad/mi-ciudad/gerald-oropeza-tendria-nexos-capo-camorra-napolitana-noticia-350055|archive-date=14 December 2015|access-date=17 April 2020|website=Peru.com}}</ref>
According to the DEA, Zazo would manage more than U$500&nbsp;million per year in shipments of cocaine through the ports of the country to Europe.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gerald Oropeza y sus vínculos con la temible mafia 'Camorra Napolitana'|url=https://www.americatv.com.pe/noticias/actualidad/gerald-oropeza-y-sus-vinculos-temible-mafia-camorra-napolitana-n179821|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327090343/https://www.americatv.com.pe/noticias/actualidad/gerald-oropeza-y-sus-vinculos-temible-mafia-camorra-napolitana-n179821|archive-date=27 March 2019|access-date=17 April 2020|website=América Noticias}}</ref>

A 2021 report made by Raúl Del Castillo, general of the [[National Police of Peru]], stressed that Europe is today the main destination of Peruvian cocaine, specifying also that Camorra clans are among the international criminal organizations that have their emissaries "working" in Peru.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Grossi|first=Luca|title=Produzione di droga in America Latina: 649 tonnellate in Perù e 936 in Colombia|url=https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/terzo-millennio/310-narcotraffico/86558-produzione-di-droga-in-america-latina-649-tonnellate-in-peru-e-936-in-colombia.html|access-date=2021-11-02|website=Antimafia Duemila {{!}} Fondatore Giorgio Bongiovanni|date=November 2021 |language=it-IT}}</ref>

The notorious "super cartel" headed by [[Raffaele Imperiale]], one of the major drug traffickers of the Camorra, had a virtual monopoly of the Peruvian cocaine trade, in which the drugs were distributed throughout Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Melone |first=Francesco |date=2022-11-18 |title=Raffaele Imperiale, da una rivendita di bevande al controllo di un terzo del commercio di cocaina in Europa |url=https://www.casertanotizie.com/cronaca/2022/11/18/raffaele-imperiale-da-una-rivendita-di-bevande-al-controllo-di-un-terzo-del-commercio-di-cocaina-in-europa/ |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=Caserta Notizie |language=it-IT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=amduemila-1 |title=Raffaele Imperiale: la droga, la latitanza a Dubai e quei quadri (recuperati) di Van Gogh |url=https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/mafie-news/230-camorra/64157-raffaele-imperiale-la-droga-la-litanza-a-dubai-e-quei-quadri-recuperati-di-van-gogh.html |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=Antimafia Duemila {{!}} Fondatore Giorgio Bongiovanni |date=6 February 2017 |language=it-IT}}</ref>