In January 1987, the commanders of the East Zonal Committee of the PCP-SL coordinated the assault on the Nylon Factory. This zonal committee was considered of great importance for concentrating the proletariat in Ate Vitarte and for establishing the 'Shining Trench of Combat' of the Canto Grande prison. The assault …
The PCP-SL created the Comité de Lucha de Obreros y Trabajadores Clasistas de la Carretera Central (CLOTCCC) as part of its strategy of creating its own organizations in the trade union sphere. The creation was agreed upon in April 1988 by a hundred delegates from different union bases in the …
On March 20, 1990, the PCP-SL assassinated Joel Podestá, industrial relations manager of Tejidos La Unión, the largest textile factory in the country. This assassination was part of the Shining Path campaign to eliminate officials of this strategic company on the Central Highway.
In June 1991, the Movimiento de Obreros y Trabajadores Clasistas (MOTC), a front organization of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, initiated a wave of violence against the Tejidos La Unión factory in Ate Vitarte, assassinating company officials. This attack occurred after the PCP-SL failed in its attempts to win union leadership in …
On June 3, 1991, Galina Ivanova, a Soviet citizen and official in charge of design at Tejidos La Unión, was assassinated by the PCP-SL. According to a Shining Path leader, the motive was that a class-conscious worker leader had been degraded and mistreated, and when he complained he died of …
On June 17, 1991, Armando Díaz Hinostroza, an executive of Tejidos La Unión in charge of serving as an intermediary between the company's management and the 12 unions, was assassinated by the PCP-SL at the factory gate. Diaz had been kidnapped and held hostage on two previous occasions by union …
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