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Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
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.
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The 55 of Lima
Lima accounts for only 2% of the disappeared at the national level. But this does not prevent the identification of a pattern of disappearances. Three moments are identified in the …
Ketín Vidal's Version
The capture of Guzmán, Montesinos's reaction, and lessons for the present. "Do not let time erase memories," requests retired PNP General Antonio Ketín Vidal Herrera (68). The successes of 1992, …
Photos: The SIN 'Vultures' in the Chavín de Huántar Operation
More than two thousand photographs taken by members of the Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional before, during, and after Operativo Chavín appear in the case file of the trial being conducted …
What Happened to the Hunters?
A few months after the capture of Abimael Guzmán, the Fujimori government dismantled the GEIN. The officers of that time accused the regime of wanting to overshadow the team's work. …
The Responsibility of the Leader. 41 Pieces of Evidence Condemn Fujimori
The trial of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori for the commission of serious crimes against human rights is, without doubt, the most important in our history, not only because a former president …
Biopolitical Reading of the Government Acts of Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori
This study aims to establish, through a biopolitical lens, that Peru, during the government of Alberto Fujimori, was under a permanent state of exception; in which army barracks were used …
García - Montesinos, an Old Connection
The longstanding relationship between President Alan García and Vladimiro Montesinos dates back to the period when the first Aprista government buried the investigations into the Cayara massacre, in which dozens …
Peru: The Legal Defeat of Amnesty and the Pending Political Agenda
The political and legal systems of Latin America have a history full of amnesties, owing both to the proliferation of armed conflicts and civil wars, and to a recurring practice …
The Intelligence Services: The History That Refuses to Die
The SIN was not always Montesinos. He transformed it in his own image and likeness after a trajectory in which institution and person were initially at opposite poles, each watching …
Forgetting Is Full of Memory. University Youth and Political Violence in Peru: The Massacre of Students at La Cantuta
University thesis to obtain the degree of Bachelor in Anthropology. Advisor: Carlos Iván Degregori. The thesis contributes to the discussion of memories during the political period of Fujimorismo. To this …
Live-In
Alberto Fujimori and Vladimiro Montesinos were not just joined at the hip. They also coexisted at the SIN, in a servinakuy that today shocks public opinion.
Declassifying the Doc
The National Security Archive of the United States government has just declassified files on Vladimiro Montesinos, described as "Fujimori's Rasputin" (using the designation assigned to him by CARETAS as early …
The Black Box
The multimillion-dollar bank accounts of Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos Torres kept growing last week, as deposits denounced by parliamentarian (PAP) Jorge del Castillo and by Alberto Fujimori himself were added to …
Electoral Crime
Journalist and public relations professional Fabián Salazar Oliveros obtained videos and electronic files documenting the involvement of the SIN and Vladimiro Montesinos in the electoral process. But shortly after receiving …
State Department Report: On the Critical Line
The State Department report on Human Rights in Peru once again stirred the fury of the regime, to the point that President Fujimori said it had been drafted by "the …
Barrios Altos Case Revives
Nine years after the abominable massacre at Barrios Altos, perpetrated in November 1991 by Grupo Colina, Pablo Livia, the first prosecutor in charge of the case, recounts how his judicial …
Dr. Caught Red-Handed
The double game with surreptitious video recordings ultimately revealed that Vladimiro Montesinos was not as clever as he seemed. His recordings are absurd, because they also incriminate him, and it …
The Salazar Case: The Wound Speaks
More details about the episode and medical reports confirm that journalist Fabián Salazar was tortured. In the operating room, a "debridement" was performed — that is, the irregular edges of …
Shining Path, a Blow in Its Death Throes
When it was thought that Sendero Luminoso had almost disappeared with the capture of "Feliciano," the organization carried out, surprisingly, its most important military action in recent years — an …
Ombudsman's Report No. 18: Report on the Case of Mrs. Luisa Margarita Zanatta Muedas
On March 16, 1998, two television programs broadcast interviews conducted in the city of Miami with Ms. Luisa Margarita Zanatta Muedas. In those interviews, Ms. Zanatta stated that she had …
Ombudsman's Report No. 8: The Leonor La Rosa Case
Ms. Leonor La Rosa was tortured by agents of the Army Intelligence Service, she claims, when they were trying to get her to confess who had leaked secret plans to …
Peru. Beyond the Hostage-Taking
The Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA) commando that stormed the residence of the Japanese ambassador on December 17, 1996, took completely by surprise not only the hundreds of guests celebrating …
The Arms Show. Unprecedented Police Deployment That Could Have Ended in Tragedy Was Prepared by the SIN and the Armed Forces
The order was to prepare "as if for a July 28 parade" — combat uniforms, oiled weapons, and live ammunition. About 20 loudspeakers were rented. After the incidents, the police …
The Untouchable - Opinion Column
There is no case in Peru's contemporary history like that of Vladimiro Montesinos. The accusation made by Vaticano, corroborated by other witnesses in recent days, confirms the suspicions many have …
The Failures of the SIN - Opinion Column
According to the pro-government newspaper Expreso, the attack on congressman Víctor Joy Way was planned and directed by "the general." Others believe, however, that the perpetrator was a major. And …
Jurisdictions in Dispute
Judge Antonia Saquicuray waited in vain from last Monday onward for the military personnel and SIN officials she had summoned to give testimony about the Barrios Altos crime, which occurred …
General Requests Asylum at U.S. Embassy, Says He Is Threatened Because of His Efforts to Investigate Killings
General Rodolfo Robles and 6 family members entered the embassy early on May 5 for a farewell meeting convened before Robles was to assume his post at the Inter-American Defense …
Alleged Witness to Barrios Altos Massacre Wants to Speak Out, If He Can Leave Peru
The U.S. Embassy in Lima requests instructions from its superiors in Washington on what to tell an Army officer who claims to have belonged to the Army Intelligence/National Intelligence Service …
[EXCISED] Says Army/SIN Death Squad Existed
This cable contains information provided by a source that has been [CENSORED], according to which the investigation into the 1991 Barrios Altos killings and other information point to the same …