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.
The television program Visión, hosted by César Hildebrandt Pérez-Treviño, was suspended by the government. The suspension occurred after the presence of the Minister of the Interior, Luis Pércovich Roca, in the program was frustrated. The measure was taken after the program broadcast two reports on the poor success of police …
Eight journalists were killed in Uchuraccay while carrying out their work. This event gave the country an indication of the complex nature of the internal armed conflict that was beginning. The massacre became a threatening example of the risks associated with the free exercise of journalism in the years to …
In 1980, President Fernando Belaunde Terry restored freedom of the press in his first act of government. That same year, Sendero Luminoso made its first official appearance, initiating terrorist acts. The violence broke out in a period of democracy and free press, causing initial bewilderment in the media, which had …
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