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Manifesto in which the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso — SL — announces the beginning of the armed struggle that, as is known, caused the greatest atrocities committed in Peru between …
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In January 1984, the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) was founded and the agreements of its First Central Committee were reached. On January 22, the first action claimed by the MRTA took place: opening fire on a police station in Villa El Salvador (VES) after the murder of a resident …
No more than a dozen leaders of the PSR ML - MIR EM met in a Central Committee and after an assessment of the international and national situation came to the conclusion that the conditions were ripe for the resumption of revolutionary violence. It was agreed that the organization would …
The political electoral front Izquierda Unida (IU) was founded with a view to competing in the November municipal elections. The PSR ML - MIR EM, as a member of the UDP, participated in this foundation. The IU won the elections in some provinces and several districts of the country, initiating …
Villa El Salvador was founded in 1971 as a response by the reformist military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975) to a land invasion organized by recent migrants and residents of Lima's slums and alleys. The district was especially characterized by its organizational level, its capacity for self-management and the …
Puerto Alegre was founded on June 24, 1940 by Brazilian settlers who gathered in this hamlet. The hamlet is located in a strategic position near Lake Imiria and the Tamaya River. During the internal armed conflict, in 1991, the population of Puerto Alegre decided to form a Self-Defense Committee (CAD) …