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.
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.
Demetrio Peñaherrera, known as 'Vaticano,' a drug trafficker from the Uchiza area, testified to the police that he paid tuition to the PCP-SL for six months in 1989. In addition to this obligatory payment, Vaticano collaborated with the PCP-SL by providing medicines, sweaters, boots and lending vehicles. However, it claimed …
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