Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
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.
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"Fujimori: the clandestine war". Documentary
Fujimori, Montesinos and the manipulation of television channels
Gisela Ortiz and La Cantuta. Part 2
Fujimori-Montesinos Partners. Part 1
Fujimori-Montesinos Partners. Part 2
Gisela Ortiz and La Cantuta. Part 1.
Exhumation of those killed at La Cantuta
"The Fall of Fujimori" (Fall of Fujimori). Documentary
Ten cantutas at Cieneguilla. Artistic intervention. Ricardo Wiesse. Part 1
Ten cantutas at Cieneguilla. Artistic intervention. Ricardo Wiesse. Part 2
Ten cantutas at Cieneguilla. Artistic intervention. Ricardo Wiesse. Part 3
Abimael Guzmán reads peace agreement letter in prison.
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What Happened to the Hunters?
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. …
Photos: The SIN 'Vultures' in the Chavín de Huántar Operation
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 …
The Dead Man Who Speaks
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 …
Ketín Vidal's Version
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, …
Peruvian State Acknowledged Executions; Chavín de Huántar Commandos Deny Them
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 …
Violence and Memory in the Work of Carlos Iván Degregori
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 …
Fujimori Confesses
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 Implications of Peru's Decision to Extradite Fujimori
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 Intelligence Services: The History That Refuses to Die
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 …
HOW TO SUBVERT DEMOCRACY: MONTESINOS IN PERU
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 …
HOW TO SUBVERT DEMOCRACY: MONTESINOS IN PERU
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 …
Santiago Martin Rivas: Order to Kill "Came from Above"
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 CIA and Montesinos
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 …
Why Was the Case Archived?
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 …
Electronic Media in the Peruvian Revolution
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 …
Military Officers Condemn the Coup of April 5, 1992 and Offer Apologies to Citizens
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 …
Vladimiro's Escape
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 …
Electoral Crime
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 …
The Salazar Case: The Wound Speaks
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 …
Under the Magnifying Glass
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 …
Vile and Wicked
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 …
How the Chaos Was Arranged
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 …
Don't You Recognize This One?
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 …
National Disgrace
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 …
The Cursed Inheritance
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. …
Barrios Altos Case Revives
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 …
Impunity for Whom?
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 …
Society in Bankruptcy
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 Black Box
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 …
Live-In
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.
Montesinos and the Armed Forces
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 …
Declassifying the Doc
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 …
Opening Pandora's Box
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 Eternal Year
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 …
Democracy and Information
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 …
State-Society Relations in Peru: A Bibliographic Review
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 …
The Friendship, the Summit
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 Battle Over
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, …
Record of Inefficiency
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 …
Peru. Beyond the Hostage-Taking
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 …
Zero Hour
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 …
The Growing Cost
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 …
The Untouchable - Opinion Column
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 Requests Asylum at U.S. Embassy, Says He Is Threatened Because of His Efforts to Investigate Killings
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 …