The processes of urbanization and modernization of Metropolitan Lima can be explained in relation to the demographic changes experienced by the country since the middle of the twentieth century, which generated new population contingents that became social actors, especially during the first Belaunde government (1963-1968) and the military regime (1968-1980), …
The military regime that governed Peru between 1968 and 1980 was a key period in the reconfiguration of Metropolitan Lima and the country. During this period, especially during the first military government of Velasco, important demographic changes took place that generated new population contingents that became social actors. The regime …
Ferocious attack by the PCP-SL on the Tambo police post on the night of Sunday, October 11, the day of the fair. Twenty armed subversives attacked the post for 15 minutes and lethally wounded guard Jorge Vivanco Vizcarra, a native of Tambo. Two policemen were wounded. Civilians were also killed: …
Attack by the PCP-SL on the Vilcashuamán Line Headquarters. The policemen were harassed by snipers at night and feared that a similar event to the one that occurred at CRAS could happen. The line chief called for help and General GC Jorge Monge Llanos, head of the II Police Region, …
President Belaunde issued an ultimatum to the terrorists to surrender their weapons.
On December 27, 1982, President Belaunde gave an ultimatum of 72 hours for the terrorists to surrender their weapons before the armed forces took control of the emergency zone. General Roberto Clemente Noel y Moral was appointed as Chief of the Political Military Command of the Emergency Zone and on …
The Uchuraccay Events Investigation Commission, chaired by Mario Vargas Llosa, met with the Uchuraccay villagers in an assembly held three weeks after the massacre of the journalists. The dialogue lasted almost three hours and was conducted through translators because none of the commissioners spoke Quechua. During the assembly, the peasants …
On July 24, 1984, members of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated the provincial mayor of Huancayo, Saúl Muñoz Menacho, who belonged to Izquierda Unida (IU). This assassination occurred in the context of an escalation of violence that had begun on June 22, 1984 throughout the country. The attack was part of …
President Belaunde removed General Huamán from his position as head of the Political Military Command of Ayacucho on August 28, 1984. The removal was not a consequence of the numerous deaths that occurred during his tenure that year, but of his public statements that the head of the Political Military …
In November 1984, a national strike was held in Peru, the last of its kind before the end of the social truce in May 1987. This strike took place in the context of an economic crisis that had severely affected Peruvian industrialists since 1983. The protest measure took place during …
Luis Alberto Aguilar Cajahuamán was a professor, APRA militant and professor at the Daniel Alcides Carrión National University. He had been elected Deputy in the elections of April 14, 1985. In May 1985 he was assassinated by a detachment of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. His assassination precipitated the decision of the …
On May 10, 1985, the Belaunde government declared a state of emergency in the province of Pasco. This decision was precipitated by the assassination of Professor Luis Alberto Aguilar Cajahuamán, APRA militant and professor at the Daniel Alcides Carrión National University, who had been elected Deputy in the April 14, …
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