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.
On August 20, 1990, Edmundo Aguilar, owner of the small business Confecciones Eagle, was killed by the PCP-SL for not paying quotas (extortion). This case shows how the PCP-SL also extorted small businessmen.
Between 1990 and 1992, the MRTA significantly lost the support of the local population in San Martin due to multiple factors. The main one was the abuse of the quotas with which they extorted money from the few remaining businessmen in the region. In addition, many of their hastily recruited …
Demetrio Peñaherrera, known as 'Vaticano,' a drug trafficker from the Uchiza area, testified to the police that he paid tuition to the PCP-SL for six months in 1989. In addition to this obligatory payment, Vaticano collaborated with the PCP-SL by providing medicines, sweaters, boots and lending vehicles. However, it claimed …
Meeting between Comrade 'Mancini' of the PCP-SL and drug trafficking firms in Bombonaje, which followed a series of talks initiated with Uchiza's firms. At this meeting, Mancini possibly agreed to the first document stipulating the conditions to which the firms would have to adhere in order to continue participating in …
Following an invitation from a drug trafficker boss, a delegation led by comrade 'Mancini' traveled from Aucayacu to Uchiza to meet with that boss. It is feasible that this first meeting was the beginning of a series of conversations with the Uchiza firms, including that of Bombonaje the following year, …
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