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 October 17, 1996, intelligence agents, presumably from the Colina Group, attacked the Red Global affiliate in Puno and Radio Samoa. This attack took place in a context of pacification of the internal armed conflict, when violent actions had significantly decreased in the region. The attack was directed against local …
A bill submitted by Senator Rolando Ames Cobián is being debated in the Peruvian Congress. The bill seeks to facilitate the access of political parties to the dissemination of their proposals through advertising spaces in private media. This debate takes place in the context of the extraordinary legislature convened from …
Héctor Delgado Parker, president of the board of directors of Panamericana Televisión and former advisor to President Alan García Pérez, was kidnapped by the MRTA on October 4, 1989. After being held captive for more than a month and a half, his strangled body was found in Uchiza on November …
On October 4, 1989, Hector Delgado Parker, president of TV Channel 5, was kidnapped in Lima. This kidnapping was part of the escalation of violent actions by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso in the capital during the period known as "strategic balance". The kidnapping of a high-profile media figure like Delgado Parker …
In the context of a deep economic and political crisis, Oiga magazine published an editorial entitled "Between the coup and the presidential resignation". This headline reflects the climate of political instability that the government of Alan Garcia Perez was going through in October 1988. Rumors of a coup d'état were …
The owners of TV channels 2, 4, 5 and 9 commit themselves in the so-called "one minute agreement", whereby they would provide their viewers with only one minute of images of attacks, acts of violence and other events related to terrorism. This agreement took place in a context of intensifying …
Radio Onda Azul, created in 1958 and owned by the Diocese of Puno, suffered an attack on August 3, 1986 when its antenna was blown up with two dynamite charges. The radio station was actively contributing to the generation of citizen awareness in the face of violence. For many, the …
On November 4, 1985, members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) took over the offices of the newspaper El Nacional in Lima. The action lasted more than half an hour, during which MRTA members occupied the newspaper's premises. This action was part of the MRTA's activities during 1985, a …
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 …
El Diario de Marka published three interviews conducted by Ayacucho journalist Luis Morales with Uchuraccay community members, presenting them as evidence of military culpability in the January 26 massacre of the eight journalists. The interviews included testimony from Saturnino Ayala and other community members about the incitement of the Sinchis …
On January 26, 1983, eight journalists from three Lima newspapers were murdered in the town of Uchuraccay. This was the most notorious case in the interior of the country in the early 1980s. The report mentions this event in the context of how the attacks in the provinces did not …
In August 1982, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an attack against the antenna of Onda Azul radio station, belonging to the Bishopric of Puno. This attack was part of a series of violent actions directed against Catholic Church institutions in the department of Puno. In the same month there was …
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