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.
Since April 1995, there has been a crisis of proportions in the Huallaga basin for various reasons: the overstocking of cocaine in international markets, the self-supply of coca leaf and PBC by groups in Colombian territory, and the effects of aerial interdiction. The price of a bushel of coca fell …
In August 1990, the price of coca leaf suffered a severe decrease in the Alto Huallaga region. This price drop was the result of the war unleashed by the Colombian government against drug trafficking. The previous context was one of chaos and violence, with clashes between local drug trafficking firms, …
Leaders of the Glass of Milk grassroots organizations, mothers' clubs and soup kitchens made a dramatic appeal to President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori to immediately implement the Social Compensation Program. This call came in a context of economic and social crisis, where grassroots organizations expressed the urgent need to implement social …
President Alan García Pérez announces the start of an economic reactivation program to boost agriculture, industry and construction. This announcement was made in the context of a serious economic and political crisis that the country was going through. The program sought to reactivate key sectors of the Peruvian economy that …
After three years of suspension, the Peruvian government formally resumes dialogue with representatives of private creditor institutions. The meeting was held with 11 representatives of the 200 private creditor institutions of more than US$4 billion. This event is framed in the context of the serious economic crisis that the country …
The first meeting of the Economic Solidarity Pact was held with the participation of business and union sectors. The initiative came from the Minister of Economy, Carlos Rivas Dávila, who announced the reorientation of government policies. This meeting sought to establish a dialogue between different economic sectors of the country …
The Minister of Economy Carlos Rivas Dávila announces the increase in the price of gasoline by 63% of the dollar. This economic measure would raise the prices of controlled foodstuffs according to the new production costs. The announcement is made in a context of serious economic crisis, since 1988 had …
With the explosion of hyperinflation in 1989, the state-owned companies ENCI and ECASA were unable to pay for the peasants' products. This economic crisis led the Confederation of Peruvian Peasants (CCP) to promote regional peasant strikes throughout the country. In Ucayali, the peasants grouped in the Federation of Peasants of …
On December 29, 1988, an assembly ratified the liquidation of Sociedad Agraria de Interés Social (SAIS) Cahuide, the largest peasant enterprise in the department of Junín and the entire country created by the agrarian reform. This decision came after years of economic crisis that began in 1976, with a drastic …
Minister of Economy Abel Salinas Eyzaguirre announces a second set of economic adjustment measures. These measures come in the context of a serious economic crisis, after the same minister had announced in September the government's decision to initiate contacts with international financial organizations and Peru's return to the IMF and …
On October 13, 1988, the peasants of the Callejón de Huaylas began a strike to demand lower prices for agricultural inputs. This mobilization took place in the context of a serious national economic crisis and coincided with a national strike called by the CGTP in protest against the economic measures …
On October 13, 1988, a national strike was called in the context of a serious economic crisis affecting the country. This strike was one of several carried out during 1988, a year in which the monetary devaluation accelerated, generating higher inflation and a fall in workers' real income. In September …
On September 23, 1988, Peru returned to the international financial community, explicitly to the IMF and the World Bank. This decision had been announced days before by Minister Abel Salinas Eyzaguirre on September 8, when the government admitted that contacts with international financial organizations would be initiated. The return demanded …
On September 22, 1988, a march of empty pots was held in Lima as a popular protest against the economic measures announced by the government. This demonstration was part of a series of protests that arose after Minister Abel Salinas Eyzaguirre announced new economic measures on September 8. The march …
President Alan Garcia Perez publicly admitted that the government was wrong to maintain a consumerist policy for too long. This policy had kept gasoline prices, interest rates and the dollar artificially low. Garcia acknowledged that this economic strategy ended up impoverishing the Peruvian state. This statement came in the context …
On September 8, 1988, in the Senate, Minister Abel Salinas Eyzaguirre announced the government's decision to initiate contacts with international financial organizations. This announcement takes place in a context of severe economic crisis, days after a major food shortage that generated strong public protests. On September 23, Peru formally returned …
In September 1988, a cabinet reshuffle took place in the government of Alan Garcia Perez. This ministerial change took place in a context of serious economic crisis, with food shortages that had generated strong public protests days before. On September 8, Minister Abel Salinas Eyzaguirre announced the government's decision to …
In May 1988, a general assembly of members approved the "restructuring" of SAIS Cahuide, the largest peasant enterprise in the department of Junín and the entire country created by the agrarian reform. This decision came about as a result of the economic crisis that had affected the company since 1976, …
President Alan Garcia Perez unveiled an economic program that he described as a 'war economy', after a long meeting with the so-called economic group made up of ministers, officials and advisors. This program was approved by the Council of Ministers and combined orthodox and heterodox economic measures. The announcement took …
The Peruvian government decides to devalue the national currency by an average of 50%. This economic measure takes place in the context of tensions with international financial organizations such as the IMF, which had declared Peru ineligible in August of that year. The devaluation is part of the economic policies …
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) declared Peru ineligible on August 15, 1986. The IMF's decision was taken in view of Peru's default on its financial obligations to the Fund, which up to that day amounted to US$160 million. One day later, on August 16, President Alan Garcia Perez called a …
Between 1986 and 1989, the mining sector in the central region of Peru experienced its most bloody period. This period was characterized by the intensification of political violence that seriously affected mining workers and the sector's economic activity. The violent actions of the PCP-SL caused millions of dollars in losses …
In 1985, most of the Agricultural Societies of Social Interest (SAIS) and Agricultural Production Cooperatives (CAP) in small plots were dissolved. This process occurred after a period of economic and administrative crisis of these associative enterprises created during the Agrarian Reform. The dissolution of these business structures was used by …
In November 1984, a national strike was held in Peru, the last of its kind before the end of the social truce in May 1987. This strike took place in the context of an economic crisis that had severely affected Peruvian industrialists since 1983. The protest measure took place during …
On December 1, 1983, the Minister of Economy appeared before the Chamber of Deputies. This appearance took place in the context of a serious national economic crisis, where the government was facing criticism for its management of the economy and the foreign debt negotiations. Minister Carlos Rodríguez Pastor had been …
In August 1983, a 48-hour strike began in Puno to demand economic aid to confront the emergency created by the drought. In response to this social mobilization, five parliamentarians from the department of Puno went on hunger strike in the Chamber of Deputies. The strike was a protest measure against …
On May 31, 1983, it was announced that inflation surpassed the three-digit mark for the first time in Peru's history, reaching 101.4% in the annual accumulated figure from May 1982 to May 1983. This economic milestone occurred in the context of a serious economic crisis that worsened during that year. …
SAIS Cahuide, the largest peasant enterprise in Peru created by the agrarian reform, experienced a dramatic reduction in its income beginning in 1979. The drastic drop in sales of livestock production and sheep wool was a determining factor in this reduction. In 1979 it had reached its highest profits in …
In July 1977 there was a national strike that represented the rise of social protests in the face of the serious national and international economic crisis accentuated between 1973 and 1978. This strike was one of the factors that led the Armed Forces to opt for allowing the return to …
The Sociedad Agraria de Interés Social (SAIS) Cahuide, the largest peasant enterprise in the department of Junín and the entire country created by the agrarian reform, could not avoid the effects of the 1976 economic crisis. This crisis, together with the contradictions inherent to its structure and organization, seriously affected …
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