Human Rights Violations under Montesinos and Hermoza Ríos
Under the leadership of Vladimiro Montesinos and Nicolás Hermoza Ríos, the Peruvian military and intelligence services engaged in widespread human rights violations. A directive from January 1990 allowed Hermoza Ríos to control all military personnel, facilitating operations that often bypassed legal and democratic oversight. The operations included espionage, sabotage, and …