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.
In 1993, the privatization process began for the state-owned company Centromín Perú, one of the main mining companies in the country, which accounted for a large part of the country's mining and metallurgical production. This process resulted in the massive layoff of thousands of mining and metallurgical workers who worked …
On May 30, 1991, the leaders of SUTEP (Sindicato Único de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú), accompanied by three parliamentarians and other union members, marched across Lima's Plaza de Armas towards the Government Palace. The objective of the march was to request an audience with the wife of President …
Rayda Maruja Dávalos Arias was a union leader murdered in Apurímac during 1991. According to CVR records, she held the position of union leader in Trade Unions or Federations of Workers, workers or employees. Her death is part of the offensive of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against social and union leaders …
In the early 1990s, Huancavelica's mining unions experienced a significant weakening as a result of political violence. Shining Path attacks against union leaders, combined with arbitrary detentions by the military intelligence service, ended up weakening union organization in most of the region's mining centers. This weakening process took place in …
On July 8, 1989, the National Police violently intervened with firearms and tear gas at an assembly being held at the premises of the Federation of Civil Construction Workers. The police intervention left one worker dead, identified as Manuel Maman Romeno, and four wounded by gunshot. This event was part …
On March 2, 1989, the PCP-SL shot and killed Seferino Requis, one of the most representative union leaders in Cerro de Pasco. Requis was a leader trained in the Peasant and Student Workers Front of Peru (FOCEP). The hikers strategically positioned themselves in the place where he was and managed …
The first meeting of the Economic Solidarity Pact was held with the participation of business and union sectors. The initiative came from the Minister of Economy, Carlos Rivas Dávila, who announced the reorientation of government policies. This meeting sought to establish a dialogue between different economic sectors of the country …
On January 4, 1989, there was an attack by police forces against the Union of Workers of the Peruvian Telephone Company (CPT). The attack occurred while a union meeting was taking place at the union's premises. The workers had previously held a peaceful march in support of their wage demands. …
The PCP-SL created the Comité de Lucha de Obreros y Trabajadores Clasistas de la Carretera Central (CLOTCCC) as part of its strategy of creating its own organizations in the trade union sphere. The creation was agreed upon in April 1988 by a hundred delegates from different union bases in the …
The APRA government created the National Investment Council as part of its strategy to broaden business sympathies and restrict the representativeness of the unions. This body included representatives of the government and of the twelve apostles (a privileged business group), as well as representatives of the CONFIEP and delegates from …
In 1987, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso made its appearance in the mining settlement of Morococha. The Morococha unions were dominated by the 'Pukallacta' group, a radical faction of Patria Roja, with which the Shining Path would appear that year. It is considered possible that some Shining Path militants who had been …
In January 1987, the commanders of the East Zonal Committee of the PCP-SL coordinated the assault on the Nylon Factory. This zonal committee was considered of great importance for concentrating the proletariat in Ate Vitarte and for establishing the 'Shining Trench of Combat' of the Canto Grande prison. The assault …
Once the coca growers' union was organized, they went on strike in Aucayacu. The strike lasted between twenty-four and forty-eight hours. In the middle of the strike, a UMOPAR patrol arrived from Tingo Maria to confront a group of strikers who had gathered at the Aucayacu intersection with the Marginal …
The Textile Federation strike was one of the most important strikes in the private sector during the APRA government. It took place in September 1986 in a context of economic reactivation but with wage ceilings that limited benefits for unionized workers. The strike lasted 45 days and mobilized more than …
In November 1984, a national strike was held in Peru, the last of its kind before the end of the social truce in May 1987. This strike took place in the context of an economic crisis that had severely affected Peruvian industrialists since 1983. The protest measure took place during …
In 1984, the MIR-EM in Ucayali began to prepare for war, having previously consolidated its political recruitment work with the formation of student cells in the Young Towns of the city of Pucallpa and created the Committees of Coordination and Neighborhood Struggle (CCOLUB). However, these plans were discouraged by the …
After consolidating the work of political recruitment with students in the Young Towns of Pucallpa, the MIR-EM (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria - El Militante) began in 1984 its work of forming workers' cells. This work was developed specifically in the unions of drivers, municipal and bank workers in the city …
During the first months of 1983, the Shining Path began its political work in the mining unions of Huancavelica. This political incursion allowed them to easily acquire explosive material from the mining centers in the region. SL's political work in the unions was part of their strategy to penetrate the …
In 1981, the Regional Congress of the Unitary Union of Education Workers of San Martin (SUTE-SM) was held in the town of Sauce, province of San Martin. During this congress the Board of Directors of SUTE-SM was renewed for a period of two years. This event was part of the …
In 1979, the Sindicato Único de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú (SUTEP) of Cajamarca mobilized all its regional members to participate in a national strike. This mobilization was part of the large national strikes developed by SUTEP in 1978 and 1979, which even mobilized parents. These actions contributed significantly …
On July 19, 1977, the Committee for the Defense and Struggle of Coronel Portillo (CODEL-COP) was created, an organization that brought together all the union, peasant and even native forces of the province. At that time, the Committee of Revolutionary Workers of Peru (CTRP) was also included. This organization was …
The national strike of July 19, 1977 represented the most critical moment of the massive protests against the military government of Morales Bermudez throughout the country. The main aspects of the mobilizations were centralized organization, mobilization and marches in the center of the cities, strike of public employees (mainly teachers), …
In June 1976, the left promoted the formation of the Central Highway Struggle Committee, representative of the unions in the industrial zone. This committee organized mobilizations and a strong strike in solidarity with the workers of the Nylon factory. The action culminated in a violent confrontation with police forces and …
The Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria - El Militante (MIR-EM) managed to capture the largest number of followers and control the unions in Ucayali, where most people were sympathizers of Patria Roja. In 1975, the MIR-EM took over the Unitary Union of Education Workers of Coronel Portillo (SUTECOP), consolidating its presence …
In the 1972 Congress, held in Cuzco, it was agreed to change the name of the former FENEP to SUTEP and to abandon the old division based on educational levels. The unification of the teachers' union met with some opposition, especially from the PAP. The PCP Patria Roja allied with …
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