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.
After 104 days of strike, teachers returned to the classroom on August 23. The SUTEP (Sindicato Unitario de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú) strike began in May 1991 and lasted more than three months. During the conflict, the government declared a state of emergency in the education sector to …
The Front for the Defense of the Interests of the People of Loreto called a 24-hour regional civic strike to protest the signing of the oil contract with Texas Crude in the Pacaya Samiria reserve. The strike was successfully observed by the region's population. This mobilization took place in the …
In May 1991, an indefinite strike of SUTEP (Sindicato Unitario de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú), health workers and national university workers began. The strike continued during June 1991, while the government maintained its position. In July, faced with the continuation of the SUTEP strike, the government declared a …
On March 22 and 23, 1990, a nationwide agrarian strike was held throughout Peru. The mobilization was called by agrarian organizations to demand from the government the restitution of credits granted by the Agrarian Bank. This strike was framed in a context of intense social protests and political violence during …
The Frente de Defensa de los Intereses de San Martin and the Selva Maestra Agrarian Federation initiated a general strike in the department of San Martin on March 15, 1990. The main reason for the conflict was the price of rice, corn and sorghum, as well as the demand for …
After more than two months of duration, the mining strike and the medical strike in Peru ended simultaneously. This event occurred in the context of the Alan Garcia Perez administration and amid intense political and social tensions. The end of these strikes is mentioned in connection with debates about the …
On October 21, 1988, the police entered the premises of the National Federation of Mine Workers and arrested 14 leaders. This police action took place in the context of a national strike called by the CGTP on October 13 in protest against the government's economic measures. In addition to the …
On October 13, 1988, the peasants of the Callejón de Huaylas began a strike to demand lower prices for agricultural inputs. This mobilization took place in the context of a serious national economic crisis and coincided with a national strike called by the CGTP in protest against the economic measures …
On June 8, 1988, an indefinite strike called by SUTEP (Sindicato Unitario de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú) began and ended on July 10 of the same year. Days after the SUTEP strike began, the Civil Construction workers joined the strike, which ended on July 4. This indefinite teachers' …
The CGTP (left) and the CTP (aprista) held a joint meeting and called a national strike for January 28, 1988. The strike was not fully observed in Lima. During the national strike rally in Plaza 2 de Mayo, a confrontation took place between PCP-SL militants and CGTP and IU demonstrators. …
The VII National Congress of the Peruvian Peasant Confederation (CCP) began. This event took place in the context of a year marked by intense political violence and social mobilizations in the country. The congress took place in the midst of multiple strikes and protests in the agrarian sector, including strikes …
In March 1985, the Intersectoral Confederation of State Workers (CITE) began an indefinite strike that lasted 22 days. This strike was joined by various sectors including workers of the Corporación Peruana de Aeropuertos y Aviación Comercial S.A., workers of the Ministry of Justice, SUTEP and Social Security, as well as …
On November 29, 1984, a national strike was called by the General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) and the National Unitary Command of Struggle (Comando Nacional Unitario de Lucha). This strike took place in a context of intense political violence and escalation of the internal armed conflict in the country. …
On June 13, 1984, the strike of the Sindicato Unitario de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú (SUTEP) was resolved after eight days of duration. Teachers returned to work that same day. This strike took place in the context of multiple mobilizations of the education sector and state workers that …
During April 1984, a transportation workers' strike in Peru lasted 48 hours. This strike took place in a context of multiple social mobilizations that characterized that period, including strikes by the medical union and municipal workers. The transport workers' strike was part of a wave of labor protests that affected …
The medical union began an indefinite strike in April 1984, which lasted two weeks. This mobilization was framed in a context of multiple labor and social protests that characterized that period in Peru. The medical strike coincided temporarily with other mobilizations, such as the 48-hour transport workers' strike and the …
On March 22, 1984, a national strike called by the National Popular Assembly was held, which was described as successful. This mobilization took place in a context of growing social and political conflict in the country, with multiple protests from different sectors. The strike generated violent repression by the forces …
On January 11, 1984, there was a massive university demonstration that ended in violent confrontations between university students and the police. The mobilization was caused by the cuts in student rights brought about by the new Law of Bases of the Peruvian University. As a result of the clashes, one …
On the night of September 22, 1983, the strike of the Federation of Bank Employees in Peru was resolved. The strike had lasted ten days, during which demonstrations were held. With the resolution of the labor conflict, banking services were resumed throughout the country. This event was framed in a …
In August 1983, a 48-hour strike began in Puno to demand economic aid to confront the emergency created by the drought. In response to this social mobilization, five parliamentarians from the department of Puno went on hunger strike in the Chamber of Deputies. The strike was a protest measure against …
On May 11, 1983, the First National Agrarian Unitary Congress began, an event of great importance for the peasant sector of the country. During this congress, the participants severely criticized the agrarian policy of Fernando Belaunde Terry's government. This event took place in a context of growing protests and social …
On March 10, 1983, a 24-hour national strike was held in rejection of the economic policies of Fernando Belaunde Terry's government. This strike was successful and was the largest mobilization that had taken place in the two and a half years of the Belaunde government. The strike showed the generalized …
On March 10, 1983, a 24-hour national strike was held in rejection of the economic policies of Fernando Belaunde Terry's government. This strike was successful and represented the largest work stoppage that had taken place in the two and a half years of the Belaunde government. The protest reflected the …
In 1981, the MIR-EM (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria - El Militante) managed to regain the leadership of the Defense Front of the province of Coronel Portillo, after having lost it in 1980 to engineer Castro Vera of the College of Engineers. This recovery of control of the Defense Front was …
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