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.
President Fernando Belaunde Terry publicly denounced that Peru was the focus of an international conspiracy. This conspiracy, according to the president, included the narcotics trade and the importation of counterfeit money in favor of terrorism. The denunciation was made in a context of escalating terrorist violence in the country and …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry enacted the law creating the Glass of Milk program in all municipalities of the country. This law established a nationwide social program aimed at providing supplementary feeding through the distribution of milk. The program was implemented at the municipal level throughout Peru. It was enacted during …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry described terrorism as 'narco-terrorist mafia' on September 16, 1984. This statement came days after the Minister of the Interior, Luis Pércovich Roca, considered on September 6 that there was an 'intimate collaboration between the Italian mafia dedicated to drug trafficking and the terrorism practiced in the …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry denounced that Peru was the focus of an international conspiracy. This denouncement included accusations about the narcotics trade and the importation of counterfeit money in favor of terrorism. The statement was made in a context of escalating terrorist violence in the country. This allegation was part …
On July 6, 1984, an Official Communiqué was published in which the President of the Republic Fernando Belaunde Terry and the members of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces analyzed the new measures to be taken against narcoterrorism. The communiqué gave instructions to eradicate narcoterrorism with the participation of …
On December 30, 1983, three new ministers were sworn in to the cabinet of President Fernando Belaunde Terry. José Benavides Muñoz assumed the portfolio of Energy and Mines. FAP Lieutenant General Jose Zlatar Stambuck assumed the portfolio of Aeronautics. Ismael Benavides Ferreiros assumed the Fisheries portfolio. This ministerial change took …
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'. …
On July 28, 1983, President Fernando Belaunde Terry presented his annual message to the Congress of the Republic. In this speech, Belaunde Terry demanded the reestablishment of the death penalty, in the context of the escalation of political violence that the country was going through. This message was given in …
On June 12, 1983, President Fernando Belaunde Terry visited Ayacucho in a context of intense anti-subversive military activity. Previously, on June 11, General EP Clemente Noel Moral had declared in El Observador that "Ayacucho is living a war situation and the detainees are considered prisoners of war". During his visit …
On March 10, 1983, a 24-hour national strike was held in rejection of the economic policies of Fernando Belaunde Terry's government. This strike was successful and represented the largest work stoppage that had taken place in the two and a half years of the Belaunde government. The protest reflected the …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry issued an ultimatum to the subversives to surrender their weapons before the Armed Forces took control of the emergency zone. This ultimatum took place in the context of a growing wave of terrorist attacks, especially in Ayacucho, and preceded the decision of the Armed Forces to …
Law No. 15037 of May 19, 1964 was enacted during the government of Fernando Belaunde Terry as part of his commitment to carry out a broad agrarian reform. However, the APRA-UNO opposition systematically put the brakes on this reform by achieving, through a statute of exception, that the law did …
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