In October 1980, ten thousand residents of 10 young towns of San Juan de Lurigancho marched to Congress, demanding a solution to the water and sewage problem. The senators responded by requesting an 'Emergency Plan' for Canto Grande, but when the promised measures were not implemented, the villagers resorted to …
On February 4, 1983, in an extraordinary legislature, the Schwalb cabinet was presented before the Peruvian Parliament. This cabinet, headed by Fernando Schwalb López Aldana as Premier, had been announced on the first day of January of that year. The presentation before the Parliament was a protocolary act necessary for …
In March 1983, the Report of the Special Commission that investigated the events of Uchuraccay was presented. This commission had been appointed on February 3, 1983 to investigate the massacre of eight journalists that occurred on January 26, 1983 in the peasant community of Uchuraccay, province of Huanta, Ayacucho. The …
Amnesty International (AI) sent letters to President Fernando Belaúnde Terry pointing out that human rights violations and excesses were being committed in the anti-subversive struggle. The president rejected the letters on August 18, 1983, calling the institution 'communist' and declaring that the letters would go 'directly to the trash can'. …
Senator Sandro Mariátegui Chiappe assumed the portfolio of Foreign Affairs on April 9, 1984, replacing the outgoing minister. This ministerial change took place in the context of Fernando Belaunde Terry's government, during a period of intense political and social crisis in the country. Mariátegui Chiappe would later also serve as …
Alvaro Rey de Castro was provisionally appointed to a governmental position on May 8, 1984. This appointment was made as a replacement for another authority who left his post. The political context at the time included the presentation of Premier Sandro Mariátegui Chiappe before Congress to present his government plan. …
On August 19, 1985, the Peruvian government announced the decision to dismiss and retire 37 generals from the Police Forces. This measure took place in the context of the reorganization of the Police Forces which had been approved by Congress on August 15 by means of a law declaring the …
Congressman Javier Diez Canseco Cisneros presented a political amnesty bill before Congress. This proposal was part of a broader debate on amnesty for political prisoners and those accused of terrorism that had been raised by various political sectors, including majority sectors of the PAP and the United Left. The bill …
On September 26, 1985, a mass crime occurred in the town of Huayllay, Tambo district, Ayacucho. The CVR report mentions this event in the context of September 1985, noting that it overshadowed the debate on political amnesty that was taking place in Congress. The Huayllay mass crime is mentioned along …
On December 27, 1985, negotiations between the Peruvian government and foreign oil companies culminated. These negotiations took place in the context of President Alan Garcia Perez's decision to terminate the oil operation contracts with Occidental Petroleum Corporation del Peru, Belco Petroleum Company and the Oxy-Bridas Consortium. The government had announced …
On February 5, 1986, the unification of the Peruvian Police Forces took place. This measure was part of the reforms implemented during the administration of Alan Garcia Perez. Previously, on August 15, 1985, Congress had passed a law declaring the reorganization of the Police Forces. On August 19, 1985, the …
General EP Clemente Noel Moral, former head of the Political Military Command of the Ayacucho emergency zone, arrives in Lima from Washington. In the U.S. capital he served as military attaché. His arrival takes place in a context of an extended state of emergency in Lima and debates in Congress …
In his message to the country and before Congress on the occasion of the national anniversary, President Alan García Pérez proposed nationalizing the banking system. This proposal generated great political controversy and mobilizations both for and against it. In August, the president insisted on his project to nationalize the banks …
In July 1987, during his message to the country and before Congress on the occasion of the national anniversary, President Alan Garcia Perez proposed nationalizing the banking system. In August, Garcia insisted on his project to nationalize the banks during a rally called by the PAP. After 23 hours of …
In August 1987, the Peruvian Aprista Party (PAP) called a rally where President Alan Garcia Perez insisted on his project to nationalize the banking system. This proposal had been previously announced in July during his message to the country before the Congress on the occasion of the national anniversary. The …
The commission investigating the case of the prisons presents its report, signed by its six members. The report points out the President of the Republic, the Alva Castro ministerial cabinet and the Joint Command of the Armed Forces as those politically responsible for the massacre of the prisons that took …
The Board of Directors of the Congress reported on two reports issued by the Commission of Inquiry into the events of the prisons that occurred in June 1986. Two reports were presented: a majority report with seven signatures and a minority report with six signatures. The majority report pointed out …
In March 1988, the Peruvian Congress presented the report of the investigative commission on the case of the prisons. Senator Rolando Ames Cobián presented a detailed report on the events that took place in three prisons in June 1986, where there was a mass murder of inmates. The report maintains …
Senator Rolando Ames Cobián presents a detailed report on the events that took place in three prisons in June 1986. In his report, he argues that the mass murder of inmates should not go unpunished and requests the intervention of the Judiciary to punish those found guilty. This report was …
On April 13, 1988, Prime Minister Guillermo Larco Cox appeared before the Chamber of Deputies to comply with parliamentary protocol. However, the auditorium was only composed of representatives of the APRA party, due to the withdrawal of the opposition parliamentarians. This presentation was part of the constitutional obligations of the …
On April 26, 1988, the entire ministerial team headed by Prime Minister Guillermo Larco Cox was presented before Congress. This presentation was made after Larco Cox had appeared in the Chamber of Deputies on April 13 before an audience made up only of representatives of the APRA bench, due to …
The presentation of the ministerial cabinet headed by Premier Guillermo Larco Cox in the Chamber of Deputies ended on April 29. This presentation was extended for three days of discussions and imputations. On April 26, the entire ministerial team headed by Larco Cox had been presented before Congress. Previously, on …
On June 9, 1988, the Executive Branch called for two extraordinary legislatures of the Peruvian Congress. The first legislature was scheduled between June 14 and 26 to approve the bills for the creation of the pending regions within the framework of the country's regionalization process. The second legislature was to …
President Alan Garcia Perez signed the supreme decree calling the Congress to an extraordinary legislature. The purpose of this call was to discuss and approve the law on relations between the national government and the regional governments. This measure was part of the regionalization process that the government had been …
On March 27, 1989, the PCP-SL carried out an attack on the Uchiza police post that resulted in its complete destruction. The attack was supported by the people of Uchiza in combination with drug traffickers in the area. As a result of the attack, 10 policemen were killed. This event …
The president of the Council of Ministers, Armando Villanueva del Campo, and his cabinet appeared before Congress to respond on the issues of economic crisis and subversion, particularly on the Uchiza case. On April 26, the Villanueva cabinet was questioned before the Chamber of Deputies to respond to a list …
On April 26, 1989, the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Armando Villanueva del Campo was questioned before the Chamber of Deputies. The cabinet had to answer a list of more than ninety questions. This interpellation took place in the context of the economic crisis and the situation of political violence …
The Peruvian Congress approved Law 25103, which established the reduction of sentences for persons linked to terrorist acts in cases of collaboration with the authorities. This law was passed during the government of Alan García Pérez, in a context of intensified political violence by the PCP-SL and the MRTA. The …
The Executive Branch called for an extraordinary session of Congress, which took place from January 5 to 19, 1990. The main objective of this extraordinary session was to debate and approve bills related to the country's decentralization process. This call was made in a complex political context, during the last …
The Senate approved the granting of extraordinary powers to the Executive Branch so that, within sixty days (until November 30, 1990), it could issue legislative decrees creating, modifying or eliminating taxes and eliminating tax exemptions. This measure was taken in the context of the new government of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, …
Congressman Fernando Olivera Vega presented before Congress recordings and transcriptions of conversations held between politicians that had been intercepted by elements of the National Intelligence Service (SIN). These interceptions constituted a kind of telephone espionage of political figures in the country. As a consequence of this denunciation, on September 4, …
The government issued Supreme Decree 171-90-PCM, which specified that the actions of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces and National Police in the zones declared in a state of emergency were subject to military justice. This decree established that police and Armed Forces personnel accredited in the emergency zones would …
The government issued Supreme Decree 171-90-PCM, which specified that the actions of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces and National Police in areas declared in a state of emergency were subject to military justice. This decree stipulated that police officers and Armed Forces personnel accredited in the emergency zones remained …
The Executive Branch, in an act described as unprecedented, promulgates and publishes the Annual General Budget Law in the official gazette El Peruano. The government makes observations to 15 of the 313 articles of the law. This act marks a moment of tension between the Executive and the Congress in …
Minister Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller appeared before the permanent committee of Congress to report on the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In his presentation, the minister reiterated that the negotiating mission with the IMF had not reached a final agreement with the international financial institution. Hurtado Miller explained …
The Peruvian government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached an agreement on the program that the country must follow to achieve its reinsertion into the international financial system. This agreement comes after minister Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller reiterated before the congressional standing committee on January 3 that the …
In the department of San Martin, a popular consultation was held, the unofficial result of which assigned a majority to the option of forming an autonomous region. This consultation process was framed in a political context of tensions between the Executive and the Congress during the government of Alberto Fujimori. …
The Executive Branch returned to Parliament the bill regulating the writ of amparo and habeas corpus. This bill had been approved during the last extraordinary session of Congress. The return of the bill by the Executive represented a rejection of the parliamentary regulation of these fundamental constitutional remedies for the …
The Congress enacts a law that supersedes Supreme Decree 171-90-PCM that had been issued in December 1990. This supreme decree established that the actions of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces and National Police in areas declared in a state of emergency were subject to military justice, and provided that …
The Torres y Torres Lara cabinet acquitted in the Chamber of Deputies a 92-question questionnaire on the anti-drug agreement signed between the governments of Peru and the United States. President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori had announced before Congress the policy of fait accompli and the decision not to modify the anti-drug …
An anti-drug agreement is signed between the governments of Peru and the United States. President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori announces before Congress the policy of fait accompli and the decision not to modify the anti-drug agreement with the US. The Torres y Torres Lara Cabinet, in the Chamber of Deputies, absolves …
Law 25327 is published in El Peruano, which empowers the central government to issue provisions related to national pacification, employment policies and investment growth. This law grants extraordinary powers to the Executive Branch regarding pacification. Congress had previously debated on granting these powers to the cabinet of ministers. The law …
Roberto Ramírez del Villar and Felipe Osterling Parodi, both from the Popular Christian Party (PPC), were elected presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, respectively. This election took place in the context of political tensions between the Executive and the Congress during the government of Alberto Fujimori. Both …
On the basis of Presidential Resolution No. 91-20, the Secretary of State proceeded to verify that Peru did satisfy the criteria set by INCA and expressed this in a July 30 letter to Congress, which attests to this, repeating point by point the INCA criteria as already satisfied by Peru, …
By means of Legislative Decree 655, the government eliminated any monopoly or exclusivity by PETROPERU and its subsidiaries with respect to the commercialization of hydrocarbons. This measure is part of the structural reforms implemented by the government of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori during 1991. The decree was issued within the framework …
The Executive Power, using the powers granted by Congress, published a provision regulating the General Sales Tax (IGV) rate at 14% and the Selective Consumption Tax by means of Legislative Decree 655. However, Supreme Decree 180-91 of Economy and Finance suspended the application of the simplified regime of the general …
Congress authorized President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori's trip to the United States for an official working visit at the invitation of President George Bush. This trip took place in the context of bilateral relations between the two countries, at a time when the Peruvian government was seeking international support for its …
Alfonso de los Heros Pérez-Albela was appointed as the new president of the Council of Ministers during November 1991. This appointment took place in a context of growing tension between the Executive and the Congress, particularly due to the issuance of 126 legislative decrees by the government. The new cabinet …
The Executive issued 79 legislative decrees on different topics, although most of them dealt with national security. Among these decrees were the national mobilization law, the national defense system law, the national intelligence system law, regulations for the Armed Forces in areas not declared in emergency, the recognition of self-defense …
On November 28, 1991, the Senate approved a law regulating the peasant and urban patrols, defining them as popular, peaceful and democratic organizations. The main purposes established in this law are self-defense and active collaboration with national pacification. This legislation sought to regulate and provide a legal framework for the …
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