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 1992, violence reached its highest peak in central Peru. Dynamite bombings, blackouts, sabotage, assassinations, disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions and guerrilla fighting became daily occurrences. Fear and anxiety gripped the population throughout the region. Among the most serious events of that year were the Ulcumayo massacre on February 8, …
