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 April 7, 2001, the 5th Special Anticorruption Criminal Court issued an order extending the investigation against Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos Torres, General Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos and thirteen other people for the crimes of aggravated homicide, serious injuries and illicit grouping in the Barrios Altos case. An arrest warrant …
Former advisor Vladimiro Montesinos Torres escapes from the country to Panama. On October 22 he left the country at 6:39 p.m. accompanied by three people aboard a ship. The reason for leaving Panama may have been the delay of the Panamanian government in granting him asylum in the face of …
In 2000, the Peruvian government, led by President Alberto Fujimori and his advisor Vladimiro Montesinos, attempted to bolster its popularity through Operation Siberia. This operation was presented as a successful intelligence mission against national enemies but was soon exposed as a fabrication, particularly by Colombia. The scandal was compounded by …
On April 30, 1999, Baruch Ivcher revealed in a telephone communication with CCN the existence of the Octavio Plan, documented by La República on May 10, 1999. Conceived in June 1996, the plan contemplated the surveillance and persecution of 20 journalists and media businessmen including Ivcher, Hildebrandt, Miró Quesada Cisneros …
On April 25, 1999, Nicolás Lúcar resigned from Revista Dominical after an unauthorized broadcast of an interview with President Fujimori and Montesinos. In the interview, reporter Álamo Pérez Luna, instead of interrogating, gave visibly negotiated inputs for a discourse that exalted the efficiency of the government and its intelligence apparatus. …
Vladimiro Montesinos Torres and Alberto Fujimori Fujimori are interviewed on the television program La Revista Dominical. After the interview, the host of the program, Nicolás Lúcar de la Portilla, announces his resignation in a press conference saying 'I am not a good example'. This event evidences the influence of the …
During the late 1990s, the Peruvian government under President Alberto Fujimori and his advisor Vladimiro Montesinos engaged in significant corruption and human rights violations. Funds were diverted to the National Intelligence Service (SIN) under the guise of combating subversion, but were instead used for illegal activities such as phone tapping, …
The crisis surrounding the embassy in Peru led to a controversial military operation under the leadership of President Alberto Fujimori, with significant involvement from Vladimiro Montesinos and General Nicolás Hermoza Ríos. The operation sparked public debates about the role of the military and allegations of extrajudicial executions of MRTA members. …
In 1997, two informants for the Peruvian Army Intelligence Service (SIE) were targeted in a series of violent acts. Mariela Barreto was found decapitated on March 23, 1997, and Leonor La Rosa was reportedly tortured, as revealed in a report by Pamela Vértiz on April 6, 1997. These events highlighted …
In April 1995, a significant crisis emerged in the Huallaga Valley due to a surplus of cocaine in international markets, self-supply of coca leaves and PBC by groups in Colombia, and the effects of aerial interdiction. The price of coca dropped significantly, leading to economic distress among coca farmers. This …
On October 21, 1994, the War Chamber of the Supreme Council of Military Justice closed the Barrios Altos case against Generals Pedro Villanueva Valdivia, Nicolás de Bari Hermoza Ríos, Juan Nolberto Rivera Lazo and Vladimiro Montesinos Torres, without further investigation. The decision was confirmed on October 28, 1994 by the …
In December 1993, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori declared 'War on Terrorism' following failed peace negotiations with the Shining Path (PCP-SL). The negotiations, initially aimed at reaching a peace agreement, were undermined by Fujimori's public denouncements and the strategic moves by his advisor, Vladimiro Montesinos. This declaration marked the end of …
On May 6, 1993, General EP (r) Rodolfo Robles Espinoza, third in line in the Peruvian Army, in a public letter accused Army commanders and intelligence advisor Vladimiro Montesinos Torres of maintaining an operational command responsible for crimes against humanity, among them those of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta. In …
In 1993, tensions rose in Peru following the disappearance and extrajudicial execution of a professor and ten students from the Universidad Enrique Guzmán y Valle, known as the 'La Cantuta' case. General Nicolás Hermoza Ríos and intelligence advisor Vladimiro Montesinos were accused of maintaining a paramilitary group responsible for this …
In 1993, the Peruvian government, under President Alberto Fujimori, engaged in negotiations with leaders of the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), including Abimael Guzmán. These talks were mediated by Vladimiro Montesinos, Fujimori's advisor, and aimed at reducing tensions and achieving a peace agreement. Although a formal agreement was not reached, the …
In 1991, while President Alberto Fujimori was negotiating with the United States for military aid to combat drug trafficking, his intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, and military leader, Hermoza Ríos, were monopolizing state presence in the Huallaga region, leading to widespread corruption within the Peruvian military. This situation culminated in Fujimori's …
Operation 'Mudanza Uno' was a covert operation involving the transfer of prisoners in the Sendero Luminoso pavilions of the Canto Grande prison. During this operation, 35 inmates accused of terrorism were killed. The operation involved special forces that selectively eliminated members of the Sendero Luminoso Central Committee, and it was …
The Colina Group was a special operations detachment within the Peruvian Army's Intelligence Service (SIE) and the Directorate of Army Intelligence (DINTE). It was not a clandestine group but operated under the guise of official military structure, with its activities being secretive in nature. The group became an execution arm …
In 1991, Vladimiro Montesinos, an advisor to President Alberto Fujimori, began consolidating power by manipulating military appointments and expanding his influence over the judiciary and intelligence services. He orchestrated legislative changes to enhance military power under the guise of counterinsurgency efforts. Montesinos' maneuvers culminated in the promotion of General Nicolás …
Between June 10, the day of the second round of elections, and July 28, the day he took office, Fujimori spent several weeks in a suite in the Military Circle, under the pretext of watching over the security of the newly elected president. There he was initiated by Vladimiro Montesinos …
Under the leadership of Vladimiro Montesinos and Nicolás Hermoza Ríos, the Peruvian military and intelligence services engaged in widespread human rights violations. A directive from January 1990 allowed Hermoza Ríos to control all military personnel, facilitating operations that often bypassed legal and democratic oversight. The operations included espionage, sabotage, and …
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A few months after the capture of Abimael Guzmán, the Fujimori government dismantled the GEIN. The officers of that time accused the regime of wanting to overshadow the team's work. …
More than two thousand photographs taken by members of the Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional before, during, and after Operativo Chavín appear in the case file of the trial being conducted …
On Monday the sentence will be announced that will determine whether or not there were extrajudicial executions during the Chávin de Huántar rescue operation. The case of Eduardo Cruz Sánchez …
The capture of Guzmán, Montesinos's reaction, and lessons for the present. "Do not let time erase memories," requests retired PNP General Antonio Ketín Vidal Herrera (68). The successes of 1992, …
According to the CIDH there are indications that 8 terrorists were executed. The Supreme Court of Justice of Peru acknowledged that human rights violations were committed during the rescue of …
To reflect on the contributions of Carlos Iván Degregori to memory studies, I review his bibliography. I find that from the emergence of Sendero Luminoso in the early 1980s, his …
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori acknowledged two secret memoranda he signed in 1991 to reward military commanders and subordinates, shortly before they organized a death squad and murdered 25 suspects …
The following transcript is an excerpt from a joint event hosted by WOLA and the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, on the extradition of former Peruvian …
The SIN was not always Montesinos. He transformed it in his own image and likeness after a trajectory in which institution and person were initially at opposite poles, each watching …
Of the checks and balances on which every democracy is based, which is the most critical? Peru has set in motion the full set of democratic mechanisms: a Constitution, opposition …
Which of the democratic checks and balances - opposition parties, the judiciary, a free press - is the most critical? Peru has the full set of democratic institutions. In the …
In a testimony that, as is known, appears in the book "Eye for an Eye" ("Ojo por ojo") by journalist Umberto Jara, Major EP (r) Santiago Martin Rivas, former operational …
The ties between U.S. intelligence and the Peruvian dictatorship according to the Financial Times. Montesinos "is facing 70 trials accused of everything from embezzlement and corruption to drug trafficking, arms …
The news appeared on Tuesday. Prosecutor Oscar Zevallos Palomino shelved the complaint against Alan García Pérez for the alleged support he received from Vladimiro Montesinos to achieve the dismissal of …
Paper presented at the III Seminar on Telecommunications and Information: Freedom of Information. Government and Internet Architecture. Department of Constitutional Law of the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Universidad …
The Commanders General of the Air Force, Navy, Army and the Director General of the Policía Nacional del Perú declared yesterday that the agreements in the submission act signed by …
The following account, provided by the three military officers who accompanied Vladimiro Montesinos in his flight one week after his return from Panama, was given to congresswoman Anel Townsend and …
Journalist and public relations professional Fabián Salazar Oliveros obtained videos and electronic files documenting the involvement of the SIN and Vladimiro Montesinos in the electoral process. But shortly after receiving …
More details about the episode and medical reports confirm that journalist Fabián Salazar was tortured. In the operating room, a "debridement" was performed — that is, the irregular edges of …
The U.S. Congress will review loans to Peru and requests official information about Vladimiro Montesinos. CARETAS interviewed Roger Noriega, the chief aide to Jesse Helms, the president of that committee …
Only in Peru has there been the case — not of a private individual, but of a political regime — whose guiding principle, when naming ministers or recruiting parliamentarians and …
On Monday, August 21, Montesinos and Fujimori (accompanied by the silent Ministers of Defense and Interior, as well as the nominal head of the SIN) held a press conference during …
Days pass and the contradictions of "Plan Siberia" keep growing. Fujimori and Montesinos have been unable to explain some of the claims and silences they displayed during the pompous press …
After a dizzying week of scandals, the political crisis continues. At press time, the Joint Command of the Armed Forces issued a statement supporting the presidential decision to call new …
Like almost all dictatorships, the one that Fujimori and Montesinos installed in Peru in 1992, in collusion with a clique of treacherous military officers, ends in disgrace, farce, and chaos. …
Nine years after the abominable massacre at Barrios Altos, perpetrated in November 1991 by Grupo Colina, Pablo Livia, the first prosecutor in charge of the case, recounts how his judicial …
The government has broken off the dialogue sponsored by the OEA under various pretexts, the most widely cited being that they are demanding an amnesty for the military, which should …
The discovery of Vladimiro Montesinos's accounts in Switzerland was probably inspired by the same hand that promoted the theft of the video showing him bribing turncoat Alberto Kouri. It is …
The multimillion-dollar bank accounts of Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos Torres kept growing last week, as deposits denounced by parliamentarian (PAP) Jorge del Castillo and by Alberto Fujimori himself were added to …
Alberto Fujimori and Vladimiro Montesinos were not just joined at the hip. They also coexisted at the SIN, in a servinakuy that today shocks public opinion.
Excerpts from the book written by Fernando Rospigliosi, with the support of the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP), on a crucial topic of the last decade: the control that a …
The National Security Archive of the United States government has just declassified files on Vladimiro Montesinos, described as "Fujimori's Rasputin" (using the designation assigned to him by CARETAS as early …
These are, in summary, some highlights of the week. If the reader feels overwhelmed by the avalanche of scandals unfolding in Peru, in an uninterrupted cinema-verité performance, CARETAS will prepare …
The following report covers the culminating aspects of the political events of the year 2000. The most serious was the resignation from Tokyo of then-President Fujimori, who had concealed from …
The case of Frecuencia Latina shows us what happens when a mass-reach medium with the capacity to reach popular sectors, using the right to information, strips the authoritarian regime of …
This work grew out of conversations with the DFID staff and aims to address the following need: "International cooperation requires a deep understanding of the complex and changing nature of …
One year after Operación Chavín de Huántar, it is clear that the operation represented a challenge for President Alberto Fujimori, and yet it caused friction after the triumph with his …
The circumstances surrounding the recapture of the Japanese ambassador's residence and the rescue of the 172 captives through a flawlessly executed and high-risk military operation have been, without doubt, enormous, …
For more than six weeks — between December 28 and February 11 — talks were suspended, during which time Fujimori and his military associates sought to wear down and exhaust …
The Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA) commando that stormed the residence of the Japanese ambassador on December 17, 1996, took completely by surprise not only the hundreds of guests celebrating …
Tuesday the 22nd, 3:23 p.m. Three powerful detonations rock the Japanese ambassador's residence. Operation Chavín de Huántar had begun. Both Fujimori and Montesinos had been meeting with military commanders for …
With the kidnapping of the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, for the first time Peru was at the center of international press attention for a period of four months. Peruvians …
There is no case in Peru's contemporary history like that of Vladimiro Montesinos. The accusation made by Vaticano, corroborated by other witnesses in recent days, confirms the suspicions many have …
General Rodolfo Robles and 6 family members entered the embassy early on May 5 for a farewell meeting convened before Robles was to assume his post at the Inter-American Defense …