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.
Vaticano, who had been the most important drug trafficker in Campanilla, denounced Vladimiro Montesinos in the middle of a court hearing for having charged him 50,000 dollars a month to operate the Campanilla airstrip. In a subsequent hearing, the accuser appeared in a deplorable state with obvious mental lapses and …
By means of Decree Law No. 824, Congress ordered the definitive withdrawal of the armed forces from the fight against drug trafficking. This decision was taken after years of evidence of the harmful effects of drug trafficking among the military ranks and its corrupting sequel, which contributed to the discredit …
Ten officers of the Peruvian Army, among them two generals, are denounced before the 25th Criminal Court of Lima for supporting the activities of drug trafficker Abelardo Cachique Rivera. The Supreme Council of Military Justice claims for its competence the investigation of two generals involved in the mentioned drug trafficking …
The television program La Revista Dominical made public an accusation against seven PNP generals who allegedly misused real estate seized from drug traffickers. The accusation holds the PNP Director General, Victor Alva Plasencia, responsible. The Minister of the Interior, General EP Juan Briones Davila, expresses his support for Alva Plasencia's …
Drug trafficker Abelardo Cachique Rivera is arrested in Colombia. Later, in August, the military justice system sentenced him to life imprisonment. His case would later involve accusations against ten officers of the Peruvian Army, among them two generals, for allegedly supporting his drug trafficking activities.
Since April 1995, there has been a crisis of proportions in the Huallaga basin for various reasons: the overstocking of cocaine in international markets, the self-supply of coca leaf and PBC by groups in Colombian territory, and the effects of aerial interdiction. The price of a bushel of coca fell …
In May 1994, the Shining Path PCP attacked the Tocache airport. This attack was part of a series of violent actions carried out by the subversive organization in the Huallaga region during that period. One soldier was killed in the attack. This event occurred in a context where the PCP-SL …
Demetrio Chávez Peñaherrera, alias Vaticano, one of Peru's drug trafficking bosses, is captured in Cali, Colombia. His capture represents a major blow against Peruvian drug trafficking and will later reveal corruption links with the military.
Demetrio Chávez Peñaherrera, alias Vaticano, one of the Peruvian drug trafficking bosses, is captured in Cali, Colombia. He is subsequently referred to the military justice system and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Between 1991 and 1992, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso consolidated its new popular committees in the Bellavista area and formed a battalion on the banks of the Abiseo River with the objective of definitively taking Dos de Mayo. In November 1993, the Shining Path managed to take the town of Dos de …
From September 16 to 18, 1993, the First Departmental Congress of Anti-Subversive Self-Defense Committees was held in Ayacucho. The Congress unanimously ratified the expulsion of Javier Pompeyo Rivera T., known as Commander Huayhuaco, who had been imprisoned for drug trafficking. He was declared persona non grata to the self-defense organizations …
In September 1993, more than 200 subversives of the Shining Path PCP took over several villages in the Monzon valley. During this action, the subversives located suspected informers, criminals and coca intermediaries, approximately 24 people in total. These people were killed in a bloody public act. This event was part …
A small plane of drug traffickers landed at the Saposoa airfield with the protection and help of an army patrol from the counter-subversive base stationed there. For providing security, each soldier of the troop received 30 dollars, the non-commissioned officer 'Pocho' received 2,000 dollars, and the technician 'Charlie' received a …
Chatin', an important logistical commander of the PCP-SL's T-4 in Tocache, was captured by an army patrol under the command of 'Cienfuegos' with 200 kilos of drugs in his possession. He was taken to the Bambamarca Base but later released thanks to the intermediation of the drug trafficker 'Cero Cero', …
Fourteen men of the troop, between classes and soldiers, deserted and took their weapons with them after the closing of the Campanilla airstrip at the end of 1992. The closure seriously affected the economy of the troops, who stopped receiving the 'quotas' paid by the drug trafficking 'firms' in exchange …
Beginning in 1993, the drug cartels significantly decreased their influence in the Tamaya River and Imiria Lake areas. This decline was the result of increased repressive actions by the Navy and the anti-drug policy promoted by the Peruvian government. By this time, the military and political presence of the PCP-SL …
Beginning in 1993, the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) began to rapidly lose strength in the Upper Huallaga region, although it has not completely disappeared to date. The influence of the PCP-SL in Alto Huallaga had followed a temporal vector that began in the early 1980s. This …
In 1993, the Caimito Self-Defense Committee (CAD) reached an agreement with the drug traffickers to provide them with security in the face of increased crime and chaos on Lake Imiria. The Caimito ADC had been formed in 1991 as a sub-base of the Puerto Alegre ADC, with the objective of …
Despite the Army's operations, in 1993 the PCP-SL maintained a strong presence on the left bank of the Huallaga River in two areas called Bolsón Cuchara and Bolsón Primavera, where it forcibly imposed its organization. The Army had retaken control of Venenillo on the left bank by establishing a military …
A military patrol under the command of Captain José Penas Sandoval, Lieutenant Werner Huamaní Tipismana and others killed eight drug traffickers to rob them of 300 kilos of drugs. This case, known as the 'Ninja Case', was later investigated and prosecuted in 1993.
An army patrol under the command of Ensign Werner Huamaní, nicknamed 'Ninja', assaulted and killed eight drug traffickers to snatch a load of 350 kilos of cocaine paste. The bodies were thrown into the river and the eight sacks of drugs were hidden among the vegetation to be sold later.
US newspaper The Miami Herald publishes an exposé on Vladimiro Montesinos, identifying him as Peru's anti-drug chief. The article notes that Montesinos had previously been a defender of drug traffickers, generating controversy over his appointment to an anti-drug trafficking post.
U.S. Army Southern Command personnel were installed with electronic means in the Huallaga Front Command Post to intercept radio communications. This installation was part of the anti-drug forces present in the geographical area of the Huallaga Front during the height of drug trafficking in Campanilla.
In 1992, due to various counter-subversive actions by the armed forces, the PCP-SL began to retreat to the left bank of the Huallaga River, losing control of the villages on the right bank. From 1986 to 1992, the PCP-SL had control of the area, subordinating the coca growers and drug …
In 1992, due to various counter-subversive actions by the armed forces, the PCP-SL began to retreat to the left bank of the Huallaga River, losing control of the villages on the right bank. Despite this retreat, the PCP-SL did not cease to carry out raids in all the villages, reminding …
A light aircraft with national registration deplaned at 15:00 hours from a runway adapted by 'Limoniel' (known as 'Vaticano') in Campanilla. The loading and unloading operation lasted between 3 to 4 minutes. The head of the Military Base received 4 thousand dollars per flight, with three to four flights per …
On the 12th a hearing was held in Congress in which the Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, Melvin Levitsky, spoke. His report highlighted the efforts and progress made by the government of Peru in this regard, with emphasis on the internal war situation in the country and …
The military intelligence report from the Joint Command in Washington on May 24 noted that the Army commander on the Mantaro Front was determined to stop drug trafficking and reestablish government control in Satipo, where he had set up his headquarters. In the midst of great difficulties and facing serious …
In 1991, the mayor of Tocache, Fredy Aliaga, was assassinated along with a coca growers' leader. This assassination occurred in the context of the advance of the Shining Path PCP in the region, where the subversive organization was forming popular committees in different towns in the provinces of Bellavista and …
In 1991, after the formation of the Puerto Alegre ADC, Caimito became a sub-base of the Self-Defense Committee with the specific objective of monitoring and combating the presence of PCP-SL in Lake Imiria. Like other CAD's, Caimito's became a sort of security and order guarantor force, although its actions were …
In August 1990, the price of coca leaf suffered a severe decrease in the Alto Huallaga region. This price drop was the result of the war unleashed by the Colombian government against drug trafficking. The previous context was one of chaos and violence, with clashes between local drug trafficking firms, …
On April 9, 1990, a "more organic and integral" compromise was signed between the PCP-SL and the drug trafficking firms in Uchiza. This agreement established seven fundamental points: (1) price, (2) weight, (3) direct negotiation, (4) intermediaries, (5) agreements and norms, (6) delegations, and (7) sanctions. Point 4 of the …
Bellavista was a hamlet that functioned as a PCP-SL Open Popular Committee and a drug production zone on the Aguaytia River. Due to its importance and strategic location, the Army bombed Bellavista up to 3 times using helicopter gunships, followed by ground patrols that burned the houses that survived the …
Between 1984 and 1990, the Peruvian Army carried out successive lightning operations on both banks of the Huallaga River in order to surprise drug traffickers and the Shining Path organization operating in the area. These operations led to confrontations with PCP-SL companies operating on both banks of the Huallaga River, …
Between 1990 and 1992, the MRTA lost support from the local population due to the abuse of the quotas they used to extort money from the few remaining businessmen in the region and, in general, to the criminal practices that many of their hastily recruited militia members had engaged in. …
The PCP-SL maintained a stranglehold on the northern zone of Tocache until the mid-1990s, with a palpable influence until 1999. This area included towns and hamlets such as Bambamarca, Nuevo Horizonte, Escote and Santa Rosa de Mishollo, which had been organized by the PCP-SL in late 1986 and early 1987. …
Between 1990 and 1992, the MRTA significantly lost the support of the local population in San Martin due to multiple factors. The main one was the abuse of the quotas with which they extorted money from the few remaining businessmen in the region. In addition, many of their hastily recruited …
At the end of December 1989, drug trafficker Demetrio Peñaherrera 'Vaticano' was summoned by a PCP-SL commander known as 'Liborio' to a meeting in the hamlet of Pampayacu. This meeting was part of a series of meetings between the PCP-SL and drug trafficking firms in the Uchiza area. Vaticano had …
PCP-SL raided the hamlet of Caimito in November 1989 and forced the population to organize into committees. Subsequently, in 1991, after the formation of the Puerto Alegre Self-Defense Committee (CAD), Caimito became a sub-base with the objective of monitoring and combating the presence of PCP-SL in Lake Imiria. The Caimito …
Another 12 corpses reappeared floating in the Huallaga River. The official version was that it was a settling of scores between drug traffickers and Shining Path members, but again, there were voices that blamed the forces controlling drug trafficking and subversion as the perpetrators of the deaths. The truth and …
Thirty bodies of presumed DEA informants were found floating in the waters of the Huallaga River, although others said they were of peasants presumed to be Shining Path or drug traffickers. The official version was that it was a settling of scores between drug traffickers and Shining Path members, but …
In September 1989, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) base was installed in Santa Lucia as part of anti-drug operations in the Upper Huallaga. This installation was part of a confluence of obstacles that contributed to the decline of the town of Uchiza as an open drug trafficking center and the …
On May 2, 1989, one month after the Uchiza disaster, President Alan Garcia appointed Gen. Alberto Arciniegas as Political and Military Chief of Huallaga. He was installed in his position in a public ceremony in Uchiza, attended by the President of the Republic, the Minister of Defense Gen. Enrique López …
Henry Bladimir Delgado Salazar, a 34-year-old Colombian citizen with passport N°AC-240556, alleged drug trafficker who participated in the armed attack on Uchiza, was transferred to the Muñoz S. Clinic in Tingo María after being wounded. He was later evacuated to Lima where he died at the Stella Maria Clinic on …
On March 27, 1989, the PCP-SL attacked the police station in Uchiza, province of Mariscal Caceres. This attack marked a turning point with respect to the intervention of the Police and the Armed Forces in their fight against subversion in the coca-growing zone. The event demonstrated the level of territorial …
On March 27, 1989, the largest anti-narcotics police base in Peru, located in Uchiza, was attacked by hundreds of narcoterrorists armed with weapons of war. During the hours of resistance, the police were in permanent radio contact with Lima and the surrounding military bases, but received no help. At dawn, …
Shining Path PCP attack with the support of drug traffickers on the Uchiza police post. This was one of the largest military operations carried out by the Shining Path, even if it was in alliance with drug traffickers. The lack of government response in support of the besieged police further …
On March 27, 1989, the PCP-SL carried out an attack on the Uchiza police post that resulted in its complete destruction. The attack was supported by the people of Uchiza in combination with drug traffickers in the area. As a result of the attack, 10 policemen were killed. This event …
On March 27, 1989, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out an attack on the Uchiza police post that resulted in the death of 10 policemen and the complete destruction of the post. The attack was supported by the people of Uchiza in combination with drug traffickers in the area. This event …
On March 17, 1989, the PCP-SL carried out a second attack on the town of Uchiza, resulting in a massacre of policemen that was humiliating for the police institution. During the attack, the police made multiple requests for help that went unheeded, and no reinforcements were sent in time, creating …
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