Peru's president has enacted a law that authorises military planes to shoot down suspected drug flights.
Peru halted shoot-downs after 35-year-old US missionary Veronica Bowers and her infant daughter died in a 2001 attack on a plane wrongly identified as carrying drugs.
Washington earlier had supported the policy, but Peruvian officials say the US opposed restoring it.
Under the new law, military planes will first warn suspected drug flights and warn them to land.
Neighbouring drug-producing and transit nations already permit planes suspected of carrying drugs to be shot down. But with the exception of Venezuela and Honduras, such events have been rare in recent years.
Peru became the world's No. 1 cocaine producer in 2012 and about half those drugs have been flown to Bolivia.
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