The city of La Oroya became the most important metallurgical center in the center of the country since the construction of the smelter in 1922 by the Cerro de Pasco Corporation. This smelter established La Oroya as a key industrial center in central Peru. In 1974, the company was nationalized …
On May 17, 1980, the same day that the so-called 'people's war' of the PCP-SL began in the district of Chuschi in Cangallo, Ayacucho, with the burning of ballot boxes, a detachment commanded by 'Feliciano' (Oscar Alberto Ramirez Duran) launched a dynamite charge against the premises of the Pasco Municipal …
On July 8, 1980, the subversives attempted to dynamite the water reservoir of CENTROMIN Peru in La Oroya. This attack was part of the first violent actions of the PCP-SL in the central region of Peru, specifically in the Mantaro Valley. The objective was to sabotage the infrastructure of the …
In November 1981, Shining Path carried out a dynamite attack against the installations of the state-owned company Centromín Perú in La Oroya. The Shining Path dynamited the doors of the Industrial Relations and Social Service offices of the mining company. This attack was part of the Shining Path's first incursions …
At the end of 1983, a military base was installed at the Cobriza mining center, a production unit of Centromín Perú. This military installation was in response to a violent attack perpetrated by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the middle of the night on January 1, 1984, when the subversive group …
After the PCP-SL attacks on the Vinchos mining unit in 1986, where the mine manager, assistant manager and superintendent were killed and the concentrator plant was dynamited causing irreparable damage, Centromín Perú arranged for the installation of a military base within its jurisdiction in 1983. This military installation was intended …
At midnight on January 1, 1984, the PCP-SL attacked the Cobriza mining center with people recruited from the heights of the Ayacucho community of Ayahuanco, which borders the province of Churcampa, Huancavelica. During the attack, the hikers dynamited the mining center's facilities, causing significant damage to the infrastructure. As a …
In January 1984, military personnel viciously beat John Broadle, who was Superintendent of the Centromin Peru Mining Company at the Cobriza mining center. The aggression occurred after Broadle protested against the blowing up of the metal bridge by the military. This incident occurred in the context of the installation of …
In April 1985, mining leader Demetrio Martínez was assassinated with a bullet to the head. He had proposed on several occasions that the mining company Centromín Perú grant a special bonus and medical benefits to cover the consequences of the chemical reagents used by the workers in the extraction of …
In April 1985, Demetrio Martínez, a mining union leader, was assassinated with a gunshot to the head. He had been advocating for special bonuses and medical benefits for workers exposed to toxic chemicals in the mining industry. The murder was attributed by workers to the mining company Centromín Perú, but …
On August 17, 1985, APRA mining leaders split the FNTMMSP (Federación Nacional de Trabajadores Mineros, Metalúrgicos y Siderúrgicos del Perú) and formed the FETIMMAP (Federación de Trabajadores de la Industria Minera, Metalúrgica y Afines del Perú). This split occurred after the PAP candidate won the presidential elections in 1985, and …
In November 1985, a column of 10 hikers entered the Centromín Perú Unit in Cerro de Pasco and dynamited the mills of the concentrator plant. This attack was part of a series of actions by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against mining installations in the central region of Peru. The attack caused …
In November 1985, a column of 10 hikers entered the San Genaro mining center in Huancavelica. The attackers dynamited part of the mine's infrastructure. This attack was part of a series of PCP-SL raids against mining centers in the Huancavelica region during that period. The attack on San Genaro occurred …
In February 1986, a strike of Centromín Perú workers was called and lasted until March of that year. This strike took place in a context of union division, when the APRA mining leaders had formed the FETIMMAP in August 1985 to compete with the FNTMMSP. The strike represented a test …
In February 1986, a strike was called by the workers of Centromín Perú which lasted until March of that year. This strike was a test of strength between the APRA mining leaders and the non-APRA sectors of the union. The context was the division of the FNTMMSP and the formation …
The VII National Congress of the Peruvian Peasant Confederation (CCP) began. This event took place in the context of a year marked by intense political violence and social mobilizations in the country. The congress took place in the midst of multiple strikes and protests in the agrarian sector, including strikes …
On August 10, 1988, a car bomb exploded in the offices of Centromin Peru. This attack occurred in a context of intense subversive activity by the PCP-SL during August 1988, the month in which the second session of the First Congress of the PCP-SL was also held. The attack was …
In December 1988, hikers dynamited three towers of the cable rail system that transported minerals from San Cristobal to Marh Túnel, both units located about 12 kilometers from La Oroya and belonging to Centromín Perú. This attack was part of a PCP-SL strategy to attack the mining infrastructure in the …
In the early morning of December 25, 1988, three towers of the cable rail system that transported tungsten from San Cristobal to Marth Túnel were dynamited. This attack was part of a series of attacks against Centromín Perú's facilities that occurred during the last days of December 1988. The attacks …
On December 25, 1988, Shining Path dynamited three towers of the cable rail system that transported minerals from San Cristobal to Marh Túnel, both production units of Centromín Perú in La Oroya. This attack was part of a series of terrorist actions against mining infrastructure in the central region of …
On December 26, 1988, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out one of the biggest attacks in Morococha, dynamiting the compressor house of Centromín Perú. This attack had serious consequences for the mine workers, who were paralyzed for 15 days due to the lack of compressed air necessary for the operation of …
On December 26, 1988, at 00:15 am, twelve armed individuals dynamited the compressor house and a transformer at the Morococha mining camp. This attack was part of a series of actions perpetrated by Sendero Luminoso against Centromín Perú facilities during the 1988 Christmas season. The attacks occurred in the context …
On December 30, 1988, at 11:25 pm, three explosions blew up the 1.80 meter diameter pipe that fed water to the La Oroya hydroelectric plant. This attack was part of a series of attacks against Centromín Perú facilities during the 1988 Christmas season. The attacks occurred in the context of …
On December 31, 1988, at 10:40 pm, three diesel electric locomotives belonging to Centromín Perú were destroyed. This attack was part of a series of violent actions carried out during the 1988 Christmas season against installations of the state mining company. The attacks occurred in the context of labor conflicts …
On December 31, 1988, Shining Path destroyed three diesel electric locomotives belonging to Centromín Perú that were transporting ore from the Cerro de Pasco unit to the La Oroya smelter. This attack was part of a series of terrorist actions against mining infrastructure in the central region of Peru. The …
In 1989, the Sendero Luminoso carried out multiple attacks on the facilities of Centromín Perú, causing significant damage to their infrastructure. In response to the ongoing violence, the workers of Centromín Perú formed a defense brigade named 'Antonio Cajachagua Leiva' to protect themselves from potential aggressions by the PCP-SL or …
In the last months of 1989, the XIV Ordinary Congress of the Federation of Workers of Centromín Perú was held with the objective of discussing the labor situation of the workers. This congress was held in a context of intense political violence in the mining region, marked by PCP-SL attacks …
In the last months of 1989, after a series of dynamite attacks by the PCP-SL against Centromín Perú's facilities in Morococha, a military base was installed in the mining camp. The installation of this base occurred shortly after the formation of a defensive brigade by the workers, whose purpose was …
On the night of February 13, 1989, mining leader Saúl Cantoral Huamaní and social promoter Consuelo García Filomenas were shot to death by a paramilitary group near the offices of the National Federation of Mine Workers in Lima. This murder occurred on the eve of a new national mining strike. …
On April 7, 1989, the PCP-SL dynamited locomotive No. 32 of the Centromín Perú company in Cerro de Pasco. This attack paralyzed the transfer of ore from the Cerro de Pasco unit to the La Oroya smelter. The attack was part of a series of violent actions by the PCP-SL …
On April 7, 1989, the Shining Path (PCP-SL) dynamited locomotive No. 32 of the Centromín Perú company, halting the transport of minerals from Cerro de Pasco to the Oroya smelter. Following the assassination of Seferino Requis, the military conducted extensive operations in the area, resulting in the death of 'Hernán' …
On April 15, 1989, a Shining Path column carried out a terrorist attack by dynamiting the industrial relations offices and the eight-inch air pipeline of Centromín Perú in Morococha. This attack was part of a series of PCP-SL attacks against the mining infrastructure in the region. The attack affected the …
On April 15, 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso dynamited the industrial relations offices and the air pipe at the Morococha mining camp, owned by Centromín Perú. This attack was part of a series of violent actions carried out by the subversive organization against mining installations in the central region of the …
On May 7, 1989, as he was leaving an assembly, Antonio Cajachagua Leiva, general secretary of the Morococha mine workers' union, was shot in the head and killed. His former colleagues state that he was also against the strikes and attributed the assassination to the Shining Path. This murder took …
On June 29, 1989, a Shining Path column completely destroyed the installations of Centromín Perú's compressor house in Morococha. This bomb attack was part of a series of continuous attacks against Centromín Perú's machinery and facilities in the mining zone. As a result of the destruction, Centromín workers began to …
On July 8, 1989, Shining Path dynamited an electrical substation in La Oroya. This attack was part of a series of terrorist actions against the infrastructure of the mining company Centromín Perú in the area. The dynamiting attacks continued throughout 1989, seriously affecting mining operations and the sector's economy. Days …
On July 8, 1989, hikers dynamited an electrical substation near the Santa Rosa housing complex in La Oroya. As a direct consequence of this attack, the copper and lead refineries of Centromín Perú were paralyzed. The attack also affected the local electricity supply in the city. This attack was part …
On July 13, 1989, a Shining Path column dynamited the compressor house, ventilation pipes and the power plant of Centromín Perú in Morococha. This attack was part of a series of terrorist actions against the mining infrastructure that the PCP-SL had been carrying out in the area for months. The …
The PCP-Sendero Luminoso called a second armed strike in the Central Region for July 27, 28 and 29, 1989. This measure was carried out in the context of the third national mining strike that would begin on August 14, 1989, and was part of the PCP-SL's strategy to generate conditions …
In August 1989, a Shining Path column completely dynamited Centromín Perú's mining company in Morococha. This was one of several ongoing dynamite attacks against the machinery of the state mining company. The attack was part of a series of terrorist actions that the PCP-SL had been carrying out against the …
On November 7, 1989, the La Oroya police post was attacked by the Shining Path PCP. As a result of the attack, three policemen were wounded. This attack was part of a series of sabotage and armed propaganda actions that multiplied during the second half of 1989 in the central …
At the beginning of 1990, in an assembly of workers of the Centromin Peru company in Cerro de Pasco, the "Guardia Obrera" (Workers' Guard) was created under the leadership of Juan Santiago. This organization was created with the objective of confronting the Shining Path (PCP-SL) in the context of the …
In November 1991, during an indefinite strike by Centromín Perú workers over delays in payments, the military from the Marcavalle base intercepted a demonstration in the streets of La Oroya and arrested all the leaders and delegates leading the demonstration, accusing them of being terrorists. Among those arrested was Emiliano …
In 1992, union leader Donato Bernal was murdered in La Oroya. His body was found dead near the Club Peruano neighborhood with a bullet in his head. This assassination occurred in a context of violence against union leaders in the mining region, where both the PCP-SL and the forces of …
In 1993, the privatization process began for the state-owned company Centromín Perú, one of the main mining companies in the country, which accounted for a large part of the country's mining and metallurgical production. This process resulted in the massive layoff of thousands of mining and metallurgical workers who worked …