One of the most important policies of the APRA government (1985-1990) was the support to farmers through credits at zero interest rates and the purchase of their production. However, with the explosion of hyperinflation in 1989, the State companies ENCI and ECASA were unable to pay for the farmers' products. …
Riot in the Lurigancho prison that resulted in the death of inmates. The APRA government did not assume any responsibility for these events. This event marked a point in which the denunciations of human rights violations did not find the same echo as in previous cases.
The MRTA National Directorate held a second press conference in Lima. Víctor Polay Campos, hooded, in his capacity as Secretary General, announced to the assembled journalists the end of the suspension of political-military actions against the APRA government. The reasons given included the inconsistency in the payment of the foreign …
In May 1988, Prime Minister Armando Villanueva del Campo announces tougher measures against terrorism. The Interministerial Commission for the counter-subversive fight was created as part of the hardening of government policy. The commission was formally installed in June 1988 and was made up of the Minister of Defense (López Albújar), …
In 1989, the APRA government ordered the Armed Forces to take charge of internal order in Lima and Callao, within the framework of a state of emergency. This measure was taken in a context of escalating subversive violence, particularly by the PCP-SL, which had intensified its actions in the capital. …
With the explosion of hyperinflation in 1989, the state-owned companies ENCI and ECASA were unable to pay for the peasants' products. This economic crisis led the Confederation of Peruvian Peasants (CCP) to promote regional peasant strikes throughout the country. In Ucayali, the peasants grouped in the Federation of Peasants of …
In March 1989, the APRA government of President Alan García Pérez formally involved the peasant patrols in the anti-subversive struggle. On March 24, Alberto Valencia, the APRA deputy for Ayacucho, announced a new movement of peasant patrols that were organizing spontaneously to free themselves from the PCP-SL. The leader of …
In the early morning of April 20, 1989, soldiers and police entered San Marcos and La Cantuta universities. This military intervention took place in a context of intensification of the anti-subversive struggle by the APRA government. The operation was part of the actions of the forces of law and order …