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 second indefinite general strike of February and March 1990 in San Martin was under the leadership of FEDIP-SM with the participation of leaders and militants of the mass work of the peasantry and the MRTA, in addition to the direct support of the Tupacamarista Army. The center of the …
Indefinite strike called and led by the Huanuco Defense Front during June 1988. The strike was motivated by disagreements over the regionalization project that the government was implementing at that time. The protest was violently repressed by the forces of law and order. A UNMSM university student was killed by …
In May 1987, the first Founding Congress of the Frente de Defensa de los Intereses del Pueblo de San Martín (FEDIP-SM) was held, with a majority of the provincial bases in attendance. This congress formalized the creation of an organization that would become the main leadership body in the region, …
On April 23, 1984, a strike of municipal workers began in Peru. This strike took place in a context of intense social and labor unrest during the government of Fernando Belaunde Terry. The civil construction workers' movement joined other protests and strikes that characterized this period, including strikes in the …
In 1982 there was a strike in the towns of Juan Guerra and Tabalosos that revealed a leadership vacuum in the region's social movement. The strike had a violent and tragic outcome. This event motivated the formation of the Comando Unitario de Lucha (CUL) in Tarapoto, presided over by professor …
SUTEP begins one of the longest strikes in the history of this union: three and a half months. The government rejects the dialogue arguing an alleged politicization of this union. The Minister of the Interior declares that extremist elements linked to the Marxist-Leninist political group Patria Roja have been conducting …
In 1979, the Peasant Federation of the Apurimac River Valley (FECVRA) was formed in an attempt to stop the abuses of large traders in the area. This organization would become one of the largest and most important social organizations in the entire department of Ayacucho, with more than one hundred …
SUTEP begins an indefinite national strike that would last until July. On July 27, after eighty days of strike, the government finally agreed to meet the teachers' union's demands. The strike was one of the most important mobilizations in the education sector during this period.
On February 27 and 28, a 48-hour national strike was called by the CGTP. The government's attitude towards the strike generated two tendencies: a hard line headed by the Minister of the Interior General EP Luis Cisneros Vizquerra, willing to punish the strikers; and a more flexible one headed by …
The SiderPerú workers' strike, which began on December 6, 1977, was supported by the social organizations of Chimbote, its Bishop and its Mayor. Towards the end of January 1978, in the face of growing social protests and provincial strikes, the government gave in to the workers' demands. The government announced …
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