In October 1980, ten thousand residents of 10 young towns of San Juan de Lurigancho marched to the Congress of the Republic, demanding a solution to the water and sewage problem. The demonstrators succeeded in getting the senators to request an "Emergency Plan" for Canto Grande. However, since the promised …
In 1983, Reynaldo Rivera Romero, the deputy for Tingo Maria of the Popular Action party, was disqualified from the Congress of the Republic after his links to drug trafficking were proven. In April 1984, coca growers' leader Tito Jaime Fernandez, who was mayor of Leoncio Prado province for the second …
On February 2, 1983, the Peruvian government appointed the Uchuraccay Events Investigation Commission, chaired by writer Mario Vargas Llosa. This commission was created to investigate the massacre of eight journalists that occurred on January 26, 1983 in the community of Uchuraccay, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. According to the CVR report, …
On July 28, 1983, President Fernando Belaunde Terry presented his annual message to the Congress of the Republic. In this speech, Belaunde Terry demanded the reestablishment of the death penalty, in the context of the escalation of political violence that the country was going through. This message was given in …
On September 20, 1983, a report on human rights violations in Ayacucho was presented to the Congress of the Republic. During the session, politicians from different political parties stood up to give their opinion on the report presented. Representatives of the United Left (IU) and the Peruvian Aprista Party (PAP) …
The Congress of the Republic approved the General Budget of the Republic for the following year. This approval took place in a complex political and economic context, marked by the terrorist violence of the PCP-SL and the MRTA, as well as by a serious economic crisis. The Minister of Economy …
Premier Sandro Mariátegui Chiappe appeared before the Congress of the Republic to present his government plan. This presentation was made in the context of the political and social crisis that the country was going through during the government of Fernando Belaunde Terry. Mariátegui Chiappe had assumed the Foreign Affairs portfolio …
The Peruvian Congress passed a law declaring the reorganization of the Peruvian Police Forces. This measure was part of the institutional reforms implemented during the transition government, in a context of intense political violence and questions about the performance of law enforcement. The police reorganization sought to restructure the country's …
On September 13, 1985, the bodies of five people were found in the cemetery of Accomarca, whose bodies, still bleeding, showed traces of having been very recently shot, shortly before the arrival of an investigative commission of the Congress of the Republic, which included Congressman Fernando Olivera of the Popular …
The Congress of the Republic approved Law 24700, which established specific time periods for judicial proceedings in terrorism cases. This law determined an investigation period of ten days and an investigation period of sixty days for cases related to terrorism crimes. The law sought to expedite judicial proceedings against persons …
A massacre of peasants was committed by the Peruvian Army in Cayara. Not only was a machinery of silence and impunity set up, but also unjustifiable political maneuvers in the Congress of the Republic effectively prevented the official acceptance of the serious facts. The investigation had to be paralyzed due …
Senator Raúl Ferrero Costa, president of the Justice and Human Rights Commission, publicly revealed that during the first five months of Alberto Fujimori's government, around 200 people had disappeared in the department of Huancavelica. This denunciation took place in a context of growing concern about the government's respect for human …
The Executive Power called for an extraordinary session of the Congress of the Republic, which took place from February 4 to 8, 1991. The agenda of this extraordinary session included five main points, among which was the modification of some articles of the Budget Law. This meeting took place in …
The ministerial cabinet appeared before the Congress of the Republic to request that extraordinary powers be granted to the Executive Branch. These powers were to legislate in four specific areas: national pacification, reorganization of the State, private investment and promotion of employment. This request was framed in a context of …
The Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Republic censures the Minister of Agriculture, Enrique Rossl Link. This occurred in the context of growing tensions between the Executive Power and the Congress during the government of Alberto Fujimori. The censure took place at the end of the first ordinary …
On April 5, 1992, President Alberto Fujimori, with the support of the Armed Forces and the police, dissolved the Congress of the Republic, intervened in the Judicial Power and installed an unconstitutional regime known as the 'Government of Emergency and National Reconstruction'. When the military coup perpetrators closed the Congress, …
On April 21, 1992, Máximo San Román Cáceres was sworn in as constitutional president before members of the dissolved Congress of the Republic at the Lima Bar Association headquarters. The ceremony was attended by 44 of the sixty senators and 149 of the 180 deputies. This act took place after …
Maria de la Cruz Pari, 20 years old, was detained by the PIP along with twelve people accused of belonging to the special detachment of the People's Guerrilla Army of People's Relief of the Shining Path in February 1993. A report from the Congress of the Republic specified that Maria …
Maria de la Cruz Pari, 20 years old, was detained by the PIP along with twelve people accused of belonging to the special detachment of the People's Guerrilla Army of People's Relief of the Shining Path in February 1993. A report from the Congress of the Republic specified that Maria …
Maria de la Cruz Pari, 20 years old, was arrested by the PIP along with twelve people accused of belonging to the special detachment of the People's Guerrilla Army of People's Relief of the Shining Path in February 1993. A report from the Congress of the Republic specified that Maria …
The Congress approves with 47 votes in favor and 11 against the General Amnesty Bill (26479) which will benefit those sentenced for criminal acts during the fight against terrorism and the attempted coup of November 13, 1992. The law also includes acts of infidelity and insult to the nation and …
The collapse of the Fujimori regime was triggered by the exposure of its corrupt character. This led to the formation of a transitional government headed by the recently appointed president of the Congress of the Republic, Dr. Valentín Paniagua, who faced the most urgent challenges of the beginning of the …
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