SAIS Cahuide, located in the upper Mantaro Valley and considered the most important agricultural enterprise created by the Agrarian Reform in the region, suffered continuous Shining Path attacks between March 1988 and January 1989. Shining Path sought to prevent this company from articulating the peasant communities within a market logic. …
On May 16, 1992, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso decreed an armed strike that paralyzed the entire region of Huancayo. This event was part of the period of greatest violence in the Mantaro Valley (1989-1992), when the PCP-SL was implementing its V Plan to 'Develop Bases for the Conquest of Power'. The …
Angelica Salas de la Cruz, appointed head of the Mantaro Valley Sub-Zonal Committee of the PCP-SL in mid-1991, was captured on August 18, 1993 in the home of a professor at the School of Social Work. A university student known as 'Henry' worked under her orders.
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