Saul Cantoral, president of the Mining Federation, was assassinated in San Juan de Lurigancho by the Rodrigo Franco Command, a paramilitary group. El Diario denounced this assassination as a sign of the genocide of the APRA government, although alluding mainly to the 1986 prison massacre. The miners' unions, in response …
On November 7, 1989, the Peruvian government declared the strike call by the Mining Federation illegal. Simultaneously, the National Police raided several homes of workers and union leaders in the mining center of La Oroya. As part of the repressive measures, the right to assembly in the mining centers was …
In the first days of March 1990, a communiqué appeared, signed by Andres Sosa Chanamé (leader of the Confederation of Peasants of Peru), Juan Pecho Arias (leader of the Mining Federation), Segundo Centurion (leader of the Selva Maestra-San Martin Agrarian Federation), all leaders of the PCP Unity, explaining the reasons …
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