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.
Showing 100 most important events • Powered by TimelineJS
Text that presents and summarizes the research. "The elaboration of the book La violencia política en el Perú 1980-2000. Sendero Luminoso contra el Estado y la sociedad (Paris, L'Harmattan, May …
A change of judge in the final stage of the trial of Daniel Urresti for the Bustíos case adds to a list of questionable episodes. October 6, 2016.
On the eve of his first 100 days in office, PPK faces the challenge of putting the agenda back on the table. The most immediate change in the presidential office …
On the 20th anniversary of the capture of the founder and absolute leader of Sendero Luminoso, Abimael Guzmán, the Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) and the newspaper La República organized …
Interviews with Germán Martinelli, provincial mayor of Ayacucho, and Edgar Olivares, mayor of Sacsamarca / Regional Analysis: The scenarios of regional discontent / Report: The faces of the cold in …
Interviews with Alberto Adrianzén, political analyst, and Marco Cabrera, Director of Social Development of the Ayacucho Regional Government / Regional Analysis: The VRAE and the dilemmas of decentralization / Photo …
Interviews with Waldo Mendoza, Economist, president of CIES, and Flor Pérez, mayor of Acos Vinchos (Ayacucho) / Regional Analysis: Distant relations, Ayacucho and the Executive Branch / Photo report: The …
Interviews with Enrique Vásquez, economist, and María Torrealva, Regional Director of Health, Ayacucho / Regional Analysis: Regional movements and candidates for 2010 / Report: After Santillana, the new faces of …
A recent and very interesting, though little-noticed, opinion was that of Vice President Luis Giampietri when, amid another episode of his crusade against NGOs, the press, and the CVR, he …
This commentary attempts to show the importance of approaching the history of the period corresponding to the presidency of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), based on a critical review of the book …
Interviews with Andrés Solari Andrade, Coordinator of the Mesa de Concertación para la Lucha Contra la Pobreza of Ayacucho, and José Manuel Córdova Ramos, President of the Superior Court of …
Interviews with Elena Conterno, Minister of Production; Juan Pacheco, president of the Wari commonwealth, and Jefrey Gamarra, anthropologist, who speaks about Velasquismo in Ayacucho / Regional Analysis: Military operations and …
The acts of violence that took place in Peru between 1980 and 2000 have caused serious effects and lasting consequences for Peruvian society. "Consequences" (secuelas), according to the CVR, are …
This work is the product of observations, notes, reflections, studies, and analyses carried out over several years on the subject of political violence in Peru, which reached its peak during …
Photographs are bearers of truth and simultaneously reveal reality: this is the political and ideological position adopted by the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación del Perú (CVR) in constructing …
The year 2006 was an electoral year, and from the ballot boxes emerged new voices and new faces that need to be defined. In that sense, we will surely find …
An interview with political scientist Carlos Iván Degregori. Published in the September/October 2005 edition of the magazine QUEHACER.
After entering university in 1994, I began conducting research into the reality of my own people and district; based on data collection and the systematization of experiences, the problems were …
The book analyzes the myths, prejudices, customs, and institutions of Peru to argue that the loss of values in its corrupt society has led the country to ruin. Although written …
Chronology 1978-2000 - Year summary - Politics - Social movements - Politically motivated violence - Economy - Foreign affairs
Chronology 1978-2000 - Year summary - Politics - Social movements - Politically motivated violence - Economy - Foreign affairs
Weekly report (March–December 2003) on reactions to the CVR's final report and progress regarding its recommendations. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) delivered its Final Report to the three branches …
After 12 years of military dictatorship, in 1980, and following the approval of a new Political Constitution, the population awaited the return to democracy with great expectation. However, on the …
"The rapid collapse of Alberto Fujimori's regime in Peru during the second half of 2000 has provided abundant and substantial raw material for social and political analysis. An event of …
Publication gathering articles by prominent Peruvian political analysts. The topics addressed in this special issue are: THE POLITICAL MODEL by Cesar Arias Quincot and others; THE ARMED FORCES by Enrique …
"The unresolved governance problems faced over the last two decades by both democratic and authoritarian governments in the areas of economic policy, subversion, respect for human rights, and legal and …
This paper argues that Sendero Luminoso's ideological promotion of political violence is attractive to some disenfranchised individuals whose aspirations are unsatisfied by their achievements. However, it does not assert that …
On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos decided to organize a meeting dedicated to analyzing the economic, social, political, and cultural changes that Peru has …
"The text analyzes Peru as an exemplary case of the severity of the decomposition and transformations underway, in circumstances in which attempts to constitute a national society and State have …
The present book by the French Peruvianist Roland Forgues, "Perú, Entre el desafío de la violencia y el sueño de lo posible" (Peru, Between the Challenge of Violence and the …
Through the epistolary device, as a communication between a Peruvian mother and her teenage daughter, a generational contrast is formulated between those who, like the author, were young in the …
When, on the night of his capture, Abimael Guzmán, leader of Sendero Luminoso, came face to face with General Antonio Vidal, head of Peru's elite anti-terrorism police (DIRCOTE), he apparently …
This book aims to clarify the military reality of Sendero, evaluated from a professional standpoint. The product of a careful study of the conflict situation and of the doctrinal aspects …
The author was born in London. He was foreign correspondent for the BBC and The Independent in Ecuador and Peru in 1988. This book is based on hundreds of interviews …
The book discusses the connections between the way the Peruvian state operates and the subversive acts that stained Peruvian territory with blood. It addresses the way in which a certain …
This document has not yet been digitized in the BVVR. It can be consulted in person at the library of the Centro de Estudios y Promoción de Desarrollo, DESCO, in …
This is a work that contains a profound and reflective message that deserves full consideration. It contains the bleeding truth of our homeland, in which the people are the permanent …
To what extent are the actions of Sendero Luminoso cornering the Peruvian left, to the point of bewildering it? What logic should be used to understand Sendero Luminoso? What are …