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.
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 …
Between the end of 1989 and the beginning of 1990 the Popular Revolutionary Bloc (BPR) was formed. One of its main contingents came from a split in the PCP Unidad, headed by Andrés Sosa Chanamé. The BPR shared many of the views of the PUM and UNIR about the current …
On September 19, 1989, Fermín Azparrent, mayor of the province of Huamanga (Ayacucho) and former militant of the PCP Unidad, was assassinated by militants of the PCP-SL. This assassination was part of the increase in attacks and assassinations of leftist militants and leaders accused of being revisionists, traitors to the …
In 1989, the UNIR experienced the conflict between radicals and electoralists in its VIII and IX Plenary Sessions of its Central Committee. Under the name of the great turnaround, the resolution was approved to prepare the party for war (prepare the party and the people for the revolution was the …
At the end of 1988, the differences between radical (Libyans) and moderate (foxes) sectors of the PUM precipitated the breakup of the party. The moderates, who saw the importance of bringing together in a national agreement political sectors willing to halt the crisis and the subversive war within democratic frameworks, …
In October 1988 the second congress of the PUM was held, where it was diagnosed that the country was inexorably heading towards a breakdown of the democratic regime and militarization. Its strategic and tactical proposal was to establish a global shift of the party and the whole of the IU …
In November 1987, the National Popular Assembly (ANP) was organized with special efforts by the PUM, the PCP Unity and the UDP in Villa El Salvador. This event proposed the design, albeit initial, of an alternative democratic regime. In spite of its large mass presence, it ended up proposing the …
In November 1987, the I Congress of the National Popular Assembly (ANP) was held in the district of Villa El Salvador. The radical sectors of the IU, such as the UNIR, the PUM and the FOCEP, the PCP Unity and the UDP participated. Through delegates who were from the MRTA …
In December 1986, a Letter to the Party appeared, signed by 11 leaders of the PCP-Patria Roja, addressed to Alberto Moreno, then General Secretary of that party. In it, under a partisan language, the top leaders were criticized for their departure from the General Line of preparing the party for …
The II Preparatory Meeting of the National Popular Assembly was held in Chiclayo. Almost all the leftist political parties grouped in the IU and others outside it, as well as the most important union and trade union organizations in the country promoted the formation of the ANP. The MRTA, through …
The Unified Mariateguist Party (PUM) was founded in 1984 from the process of unity of the so-called new left. The party proposed to adapt Marxism-Leninism to the Peruvian reality. Its proposal for the department of Puno included the democratic restructuring of the land, the construction of the San Gaban hydroelectric …
The national strike of July 19, 1977 represented the most critical moment of the massive protests against the military government of Morales Bermudez throughout the country. The main aspects of the mobilizations were centralized organization, mobilization and marches in the center of the cities, strike of public employees (mainly teachers), …
In June 1976, the left promoted the formation of the Central Highway Struggle Committee, representative of the unions in the industrial zone. This committee organized mobilizations and a strong strike in solidarity with the workers of the Nylon factory. The action culminated in a violent confrontation with police forces and …
The Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria - El Militante (MIR-EM) managed to capture the largest number of followers and control the unions in Ucayali, where most people were sympathizers of Patria Roja. In 1975, the MIR-EM took over the Unitary Union of Education Workers of Coronel Portillo (SUTECOP), consolidating its presence …
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