Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
The Peruvian government created the Inti as the country's new monetary unit. This economic measure came into effect on February 1, 1985, during the administration of President Fernando Belaunde Terry. The creation of the Inti was part of the economic policies implemented in a context of economic crisis and political …
The Minister of the Interior, Luis Pércovich Roca, made public statements in which he considered that there was an "intimate collaboration between the Italian mafia dedicated to drug trafficking and the terrorism practiced in the country". This statement was part of the government's narrative that sought to link terrorism with …
President Belaunde removed General Huamán from his position as head of the Political Military Command of Ayacucho on August 28, 1984. The removal was not a consequence of the numerous deaths that occurred during his tenure that year, but of his public statements that the head of the Political Military …
On 29 December 1982, President Belaunde of Peru declared a state of emergency in several provinces, including Huanta, La Mar, Cangallo, Víctor Fajardo, Huamanga, and parts of Huancavelica and Apurímac. This decision was made in response to increasing violence and armed actions by the PCP-SL, including attacks on police posts …
President Belaunde issued an ultimatum to the terrorists to surrender their weapons.
On December 26, 1982, President Fernando Belaunde Terry issued an ultimatum to the Shining Path. This occurred in a context of escalating violence in Metropolitan Lima, where the PCP-SL had intensified its subversive actions. During that year there had been multiple attacks, including general blackouts in Lima and Callao due …
In response to escalating terrorist activities by the Shining Path (PCP-SL), President Fernando Belaúnde Terry declared a state of emergency in Lima and Callao on August 20, 1982. Despite this measure, the violence continued, including a significant attack on a police post in Vilcashuamán on August 22, resulting in the …
In 1982, the Peruvian government, led by President Belaunde, faced significant challenges from the terrorist activities of the PCP-SL (Shining Path). The government's military response included an ultimatum issued on December 27, followed by the deployment of around 2000 army personnel to the emergency zone on December 31. Despite these …
In 1982, the Peruvian government faced a severe internal crisis as the PCP-SL (Shining Path) undermined the state's legal and institutional structures in the central Andes. The military was tasked with controlling the internal order in the emergency zone, a mission complicated by the absence of a functioning legal system …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry declared for the first time a state of emergency in Ayacucho commanded by the FFPP through supreme decree 036-81-IN. The state of emergency was extended for sixty days to five Ayacucho provinces: Huanta, La Mar, Huamanga, Cangallo and Victor Fajardo. General GC Carlos Barreto Bretoneche assumed …
On May 18, with the participation of 6,382,002 voters, the General Elections were held. Fernando Belaunde Terry of Acción Popular won with 46% of the presidential votes, followed by Armando Villanueva del Campo of the PAP with 28% and Luis Bedoya Reyes of the PPC with 10%. The leftist blocs …
In 1980, President Fernando Belaunde Terry restored freedom of the press in his first act of government. That same year, Sendero Luminoso made its first official appearance, initiating terrorist acts. The violence broke out in a period of democracy and free press, causing initial bewilderment in the media, which had …
The colonization of the Alto Huallaga region was intensified in the 1950s and 1960s, driven by state-led projects and spontaneous migration from the Andean regions. In 1964, the Peruvian government under President Belaunde launched an official colonization program, identifying large tracts of land for agricultural use. Despite initial successes in …
The processes of urbanization and modernization of Metropolitan Lima can be explained in relation to the demographic changes experienced by the country since the middle of the twentieth century, which generated new population contingents that became social actors, especially during the first Belaunde government (1963-1968) and the military regime (1968-1980), …
When Belaunde assumed the presidency of the republic in 1963, he promised to carry out a broad and resolute agrarian reform. However, the APRA-UNO opposition systematically put the brakes on this reform, achieving, by means of a statute of exception, that Law No. 15037 of May 19, 1964 did not …
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The political parties and movements that governed the country between 1980 and 2000 are today reluctant to accept their responsibilities in the development of the internal conflict that devastated the …
The memory and conscience of Peruvians demand the clarification of extrajudicial executions, disappearances, and other human rights violations perpetrated during the governments of Fernando Belaúnde Terry (1980-1985), Alan García Pérez …
The document discusses the recent Supreme Court decision to have Lt. Commander Artaza stand trial in a civilian court for the 1984 disappearance of journalist Jaime Ayala, Artaza's subsequent disappearance, …
Clandestine mass graves are discovered 36 kilometers from the city of Huanta. This cable estimates that approximately 49 to 50 males and one woman were killed in a methodical manner …
Peruvian President Fernando Belaúnde Terry called general elections for April 14, 1985, and turned to the armed forces in response to the bloody offensive by the Maoist terrorist organization Sendero …
President Belaunde visits the city of Ayacucho in an attempt to demonstrate a united civilian and military approach against terrorism and the economic crisis. The document notes that opposition leaders …
A work in which the author analyzes the main political and economic events related to the birth of the Partido Comunista-Sendero Luminoso, covering the period from 1965 to 1982.
Translation of the work titled Maoism in the Andes: Sendero Luminoso and the contemporary guerrilla movement in Peru, in which the author analyzes the main political and economic events related …
An independent commission publishes its findings on the murder of eight journalists. Nearly four months after the murder of eight Peruvian journalists in the Andean department of Ayacucho, where the …
President Belaunde visits the city of Ayacucho, in a move to demonstrate a united civil-military approach to terrorism and economic decay. The document notes that opposition figures and the press …
This cable analyzes the consequences of President Belaunde's decision to place the army in charge of maintaining public order in the emergency zones. The military have introduced a growing number …
Twenty-six people died, according to the first official count, in clashes last Sunday morning between guerrillas and police in the district of Vilcashuaman, province of Cangallo, department of Ayacucho. The …