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.
Between December 17, 1996 and April 22, 1997, the MRTA took over the residence of the Japanese Ambassador, holding 72 hostages. The independent press, although critical of the Fujimori government, was visibly self-regulating in its coverage due to the magnitude of the blackmail. Coverage was intense and attracted international press. …
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.
Antonio Morales, a journalist known for his involvement in the Uchuraccay case and correspondent of El diario de Marka in Huamanga, Ayacucho, was murdered on July 13, 1991. Before his death, he had received death threats from the self-styled Comando de Liberación Antiterrorista (Anti-Terrorist Liberation Command). This murder took place …
The police carried out an unexpected and violent raid on the offices of the newspaper El Diario on November 2, 1989. During the operation, 15 workers and journalists of the newspaper were arrested. This raid took place in the context of the counter-subversive struggle, given that El Diario was considered …
On November 24, 1988, in the hamlet of Erapata, province of Huanta, Ayacucho, Hugo Bustíos Saavedra, a journalist for the magazine Caretas, was murdered. This crime occurred in a context of intense political violence in the Ayacucho region, where both law enforcement and subversive groups were active. The murder of …
On August 19, 1988, Luis Arce Borja, director of the newspaper El Diario, denounced the seizure of 100,000 copies of the special edition containing an interview with Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, leader of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. This interview had been published on July 24, 1988 in a supplement called the 'Interview …
On July 24, 1988, the newspaper El Diario, mouthpiece of the PCP-SL, published the self-styled Interview of the Century with Abimael Guzmán. The interview was illustrated with old photos and an apparently recent one with a background of vegetation to mislead the reader. Guzmán opted for the written press format …
On July 24, 1988, the newspaper El Diario published an extensive interview with Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, top leader of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso. The interview was published in a special supplement called the 'Interview of the Century'. This publication occurred during the second session of the First Congress of the PCP-SL, …
At the beginning of July 1988, President Alan García gave a controversial speech in Ayacucho during the VII Congress of the Aprista Youth. He highlighted the mystique of the Shining Path and proposed it as an example for the youth of his party. Although there was no pro-Senderista sympathy, some …
The same MRTA group that had taken Juanjui arrived in San José de Sisa, taking control of the police post quickly, without firing a single shot. They stayed overnight due to fatigue and in the evening they offered a cultural activity with the assistance of the villagers. Journalists from Panamericana …
On June 7, 1986, President Alan Garcia met with media owners asking for their collaboration in the counter-subversive struggle. That same day, after going to the Plaza Bolognesi for the ceremony of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, small bombs exploded, frustrating his presence. Respecting a gentlemen's agreement, the …
On Sunday, January 30, 1983, a large group of national and foreign reporters, parliamentarians, church members and relatives of the murdered journalists arrived in Ayacucho in a plane chartered by the newspaper La República to exhume the bodies. The images of the lynched bodies were transmitted on television, causing a …
In 1983, the Armed Forces entered the zones that had been declared in a state of emergency, establishing political-military commands as the only real power. After two years of repression, assassinations, extrajudicial executions and torture on both sides, the number of victims between 1982 and 1984 increased notably, most of …
Edith Lagos, a young Shining Path militant, was shot on September 2, 1982 in an accidental encounter with the police near Andahuaylas. Her death and subsequent funeral in Ayacucho were widely covered by the media, which transmitted images of her coffin and bloody clothes. The media unwittingly contributed to create …
A Shining Path militant climbed onto the roof of the Comercio hotel, located next to the Cordano, and threw a bomb with a slingshot onto the roof of the Government Palace. This attack broke the first media agreement not to give front page coverage to terrorist acts, due to the …
Members of the PCP-SL escaped from the Social Readaptation Center (CRAS) of Huamanga at the beginning of March 1982. This event, together with small attacks that began to unsettle the capital, motivated the first formal meeting of the media to discuss how to cover terrorist violence and avoid being used …
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