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 November 22, Valentín Paniagua Corazao is sworn in as President of the Republic. Upon taking office, the new president states that in the eight months of his term 'there is little I can do to change things in the country'. Javier Perez de Cuellar is appointed President of the …
On September 17, 1994, the process of returning displaced families in the central jungle officially began as part of a campaign promoted by the government and the Armed Forces. However, it was not until 1995 that the majority of displaced families began to return to their original communities. Many had …
The government changed its strategy by publicly presenting its achievements in capturing alleged subversives. On May 15, 10 MRTA subversives who were captured in the Selva Colorada sector, in Madre de Dios, were presented in Cuzco. This public presentation was part of the government's propaganda strategy.
Alfonso de los Heros Pérez-Albela was appointed as the new president of the Council of Ministers during November 1991. This appointment took place in a context of growing tension between the Executive and the Congress, particularly due to the issuance of 126 legislative decrees by the government. The new cabinet …
On November 8, 1991, Decree Law No. 740 was enacted, days before the enactment of DL No. 741 on Self-Defense Committees. This decree established that the peasant patrols recognized by Law No. 24571 (mentioned but not completed in the text) would have a specific legal framework. The decree was part …
The heads of the portfolios of Foreign Affairs (Vice Admiral AP (r) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor), Transportation (Jaime Yoshiyama Tanaka) and Fisheries (Canal Torres) are sworn in before President Alberto Fujimori Fujimori. This ministerial change is part of the Executive's decisions during the first year of Fujimori's government. The swearing-in took …
The Hurtado Miller cabinet appeared before the National Congress to present the government program of Cambio 90. This cabinet included figures from different political parties, among them the Minister of Education Gloria Helfer Palacios (who resigned from IU to take office), Fernando Sanchez Alvabera in Energy and Mines, and Carlos …
In the second electoral round, the left (IU and IS) asked its militancy to vote in favor of the candidate Alberto Fujimori. With the support of the left and the APRA, Alberto Fujimori was elected president. Shortly after, Fujimori appointed Gloria Helfer (IU), Fernando Sanchez Albavera (IS) and Carlos Amat …
President Alan Garcia Perez and Luis Alva Castro, secretary general of the PAP, met to discuss the relations that should exist between the government and the APRA party. This meeting took place in a context of political tension, just three weeks after Alva Castro was elected as the new secretary …
In 1987, the Peruvian government implemented a significant change in its counter-subversive policy, shifting from a strategy of indiscriminate repression to one aimed at recovering the civilian population from the hands of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This change materialized with the arrival of Major Miguel Seminario Ayacuchano, who was appointed head …
On June 21, 1986, the Government officially admitted the possibility that excessive use of force had been committed in the Lurigancho prison and informed that it had ordered the Military Court to investigate these events, following complaints by Senator Javier Diez Canseco and the media about extrajudicial executions.
President Alan Garcia Perez inaugurated the first Rimanacuy 86 Meeting in the city of Piura. During this event, the president ratified that the government would use all available means to fight terrorism, but always within the framework of the Constitution and the laws in force. This meeting was part of …
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 …
Alan Garcia Perez assumed the Presidency of the Republic of Peru on July 28, 1985. In his message to the nation, he stated that he would only pay for foreign debt 10% of total exports. He also proposed the creation of the Peace Commission. His cabinet was previously announced in …
The Minister of the Interior, General EP Óscar Brush Noel, made a public call inviting the militants of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) to lay down their arms and surrender to the courts. This invitation took place in the context of an escalation of political violence …
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 …
Alvaro Rey de Castro was provisionally appointed to a governmental position on May 8, 1984. This appointment was made as a replacement for another authority who left his post. The political context at the time included the presentation of Premier Sandro Mariátegui Chiappe before Congress to present his government plan. …
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 …
President Fernando Belaunde Terry publicly rejected the letters sent by Amnesty International (AI) that pointed out that in the anti-subversive struggle, excesses and human rights violations were being committed. Belaunde Terry not only described this institution as 'communist', but also declared that these letters would go 'directly to the trash …
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 …
As a consequence of the attack on the CRAS of Huamanga on March 2, the state of emergency was reestablished in Huamanga by Supreme Decree 04-82-IN. The assault had a national resonance that demonstrated the operational capacity of the PCP-SL and caused the government, the FFPP and the Armed Forces …
On October 12, 1981, one day after the assault on the El Tambo police post, the President of the Republic, architect Fernando Belaunde Terry, declared a state of emergency in five provinces of the department of Ayacucho: Cangallo, Huamanga, Huanta, La Mar and Víctor Fajardo. This situation implied the suspension …
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 …
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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On the eve of his first 100 days in office, PPK faces the challenge of putting the agenda back on the table. The most immediate change in the presidential office …
This publication aims to demonstrate the alliance between the terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso and drug trafficking, and its repercussions across the hemisphere. This document is the result of an analysis …
The president of the Consejo de Reparaciones, Sofía Macher Batanero, indicated that the inter-ministerial commission, which is to establish the amount of economic reparations for the families of terrorism victims, …
What does impunity mean? Laconically, the dictionary of the Real Academia Española tells us it means "lack of punishment" — the same meaning it carries in other languages. Impune (unpunished) …
Cardinal Cipriani — who served as bishop of Ayacucho during the genocide — gives his reasons for not creating a Museum of Memory. The Archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Juan Luis …
The reparations delivered by the central government to those affected by political violence are limited to collective infrastructure and, to date, there are no updates on the announced individual indemnifications. …
The two main rebel groups in Peru, both leftist, are the Maoist group Sendero Luminoso and the Cuban-inspired Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA). Both organizations operated most forcefully in the …
Weekly report from 2005 on reactions to the CVR's final report and progress regarding its recommendations. Press releases and related documents are included.
Almost twelve months after the delivery of the CVR's final report, its recommendations occupy almost no place in the public debate; and while the government must face one "emergency" after …
Weekly report from 2004 on reactions to the CVR's final report and progress regarding its recommendations. Press releases and related documents are included.
Weekly report (March–December 2003) on reactions to the CVR's final report and progress regarding its recommendations. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) delivered its Final Report to the three branches …