A Shining Path militant climbed onto the roof of the Comercio hotel, located next to the Cordano, and threw a bomb with a slingshot onto the roof of the Government Palace. This attack broke the first media agreement not to give front page coverage to terrorist acts, due to the …
The Investigation Commission of the Uchuraccay Events was constituted by Supreme Resolution Nº 0016-83-PCM, one week after the massacre of the journalists occurred. It was charged with preparing a report on the events within one month. Fulfilling its mandate, in a special ceremony held at the Government Palace, the Commission …
The Investigation Commission of the Uchuraccay Events delivered its report to President Fernando Belaunde Terry in a special ceremony held in the Government Palace at the beginning of March 1983. The Commission had been constituted on February 2, 1983 by Supreme Resolution Nº 0016-83-PCM, with the task of preparing a …
As a symbolic act announcing the beginning of military actions against the APRA government, the MRTA threw a grenade against one of the balconies of the Government Palace, where Alan Garcia usually made his public appearances.
At 12:40 in the afternoon, members of the PCP-SL exploded a 10 to 12 kg charge of dynamite under an Army bus that was transporting the Húsares de Junín Escort Regiment from the 'Barbones' barracks to the Government Palace. The attack was carefully planned: first they stole a white Volkswagen …
On June 3, 1989, two military vehicles from the Cavalry Regiment 'Glorioso Húsares de Junín' were en route to the Government Palace for a guard change. The first vehicle was obstructed by a stolen Volkswagen, causing it to stop near the Iglesia Virgen del Carmen. The driver of the Volkswagen …
The World Confederation of Organizations of Professional Teachers (CMOPE) alleges a series of murders, arrests and acts of violence against teachers who were members of the Single Union of Education Workers of Peru (SUTEP) since the beginning of the strike on May 8, 1991. The repression of this strike resulted …
On May 30, 1991, the leaders of SUTEP (Sindicato Único de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú), accompanied by three parliamentarians and other union members, marched across Lima's Plaza de Armas towards the Government Palace. The objective of the march was to request an audience with the wife of President …
On April 18, 1995, the judge of the 16th Criminal Court of Lima, Dr. Antonia Saquicuray, admitted the denunciation of the Provincial Prosecutor and opened an investigation against General EP Julio Salazar Monroe and others accused for the crimes of murder and injuries in the Barrios Altos massacre. The judge …
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