On December 27, 1982, President Belaunde gave an ultimatum of 72 hours for the terrorists to surrender their weapons before the armed forces took control of the emergency zone. General Roberto Clemente Noel y Moral was appointed as Chief of the Political Military Command of the Emergency Zone and on …
In January 1983, the Armed Forces took control of the counter-subversive struggle in Ayacucho through the installation of the political-military command. The new head of the political-military command of Ayacucho, General Clemente Noel Moral, arrived in the region with the idea, shared by the "hard" sectors of the army, of …
On January 21, 1983, the Marine Infantry, called 'the navy' by the local population, took control of the Huanta area under the leadership of Commander Vega Llona, who would later be assassinated by subversives in 1988 in La Paz, Bolivia. This entry marked the beginning of military control of the …
In July 1985, the Marine Corps withdrew from Ayacucho and was replaced by the Army, which applied a more selective repression and sought a certain rapprochement with the population. The Marines, known locally as 'the navy', had been under the command of Commander Vega Llona since January 1983 in Huanta. …