Interior Minister Luis Pércovich Roca spoke in the Senate about the Oropesa case. This case referred to the detention of Jesús Oropesa Chonta, who had been arrested on July 27, 1984 by members of the Civil Guard on an alleged terrorism complaint in Puquio, Ayacucho. The disappearance of the peasant …
Javier Alva Orlandini made a public statement in which he affirmed that "the generals of the first and second phase encourage and participate in the acts of the PCP-SL". This statement was made in the context of a political debate on the role of the Armed Forces in the anti-subversive …
In December 1987, the Senate Investigative Commission chaired by Rolando Ames Cobián presented two reports on the events of the June 1986 prisons, one in the majority and the other in the minority. Both coincide in the facts but differ in the evaluation and determination of responsibilities. The minority report …
On January 20, 1988, the Executive Power called an extraordinary session of the legislature to deal with the interpretation of two articles of the law for the nationalization of the banking system and the regionalization of the country. During the session there was a tie vote on the bill for …
On February 2, 1988, in the absence of the full opposition, the Senate approved to authorize the Executive to issue the necessary legislative decrees to interpret the two articles of the bank nationalization law, which the Executive sent to Parliament for interpretation. This approval came at the end of an …
Minister Abel Salinas Eyzaguirre announces the government's decision to initiate contacts with international financial organizations. On September 8, in the Senate, he presents the government's economic plan. On September 13, President Alan García Pérez admits that the government made a mistake in maintaining a consumerist policy for too long, with …
On September 8, 1988, in the Senate, Minister Abel Salinas Eyzaguirre announced the government's decision to initiate contacts with international financial organizations. This announcement takes place in a context of severe economic crisis, days after a major food shortage that generated strong public protests. On September 23, Peru formally returned …
Senator Enrique Bernales Ballesteros, on behalf of the Special Commission on Pacification, which he chairs, presented a detailed report to the Senate on the problem of subversion in Peru. The report analyzes the causes of the subversive phenomenon from the social, political and economic angles. Bernales presents recommendations to put …
Martha Crisóstomo García was murdered in Ayacucho on August 8, 1989. She was a key witness in the Cayara massacre, having recognized the body of a Cayara villager before prosecutor Carlos Escobar Pineda. Her testimony had been collected by the Senate investigative commission. The murder occurred in the context of …
Congressman Fernando Olivera Vega presented before Congress recordings and transcriptions of conversations held between politicians that had been intercepted by elements of the National Intelligence Service (SIN). These interceptions constituted a kind of telephone espionage of political figures in the country. As a consequence of this denunciation, on September 4, …
Roberto Ramírez del Villar and Felipe Osterling Parodi, both from the Popular Christian Party (PPC), were elected presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, respectively. This election took place in the context of political tensions between the Executive and the Congress during the government of Alberto Fujimori. Both …
The Senate committee investigating the alleged irregularities of the Central Reserve Bank (BCR) deposits in BCCI agreed to initiate extradition proceedings against the former president of the BCR, Leonel Figueroa, and against the former general manager, Héctor Neyra. This decision was taken in the framework of investigations on financial irregularities …
The Chamber of Deputies of the Peruvian Congress did not grant the extraordinary powers requested by the Minister of Economy to legislate on taxation. This decision took place in a context of growing conflict between the Executive Branch and the Congress, due to the recent deluge of legislative decrees issued …
On November 10, 1991, the Senate Human Rights Commission summoned former Ministers of the Interior and Defense, Generals Juan Briones Davila and Victor Malca Villanueva, to report on the Barrios Altos massacre. The ministers presented three hypotheses about the perpetrators (Shining Path, MRTA or outside organizations) but categorically denied the …
The Congress convened a second extraordinary legislature to examine the bills that President Alberto Fujimori had observed. On January 27, the Senate approved by majority a bill repealing twelve legislative decrees on national pacification enacted by the Executive Branch and presented others of a democratic nature. The Chamber of Deputies …
In January 1992, the Peruvian Congress passed bills modifying the Executive Branch's legislative decrees on national pacification. The Senate approved a bill whereby the intervention of the Armed Forces in areas not declared in a state of emergency could be carried out at the request of the political authority or, …
The senatorial commission on pacification presents a harsh balance sheet on the social cost of political violence in the country during 1991. This report was presented in the context of intense confrontations between the Executive Branch and the Congress, particularly on issues of national pacification and legislative decrees. The balance …
The president of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos, expressed to the government his public support for the pacification strategy embodied in the legislative decrees issued under the powers conferred by Congress. This support took place in a context of confrontation between the Executive …
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