56 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
"The nature of this document is somewhat undefined. In its form it groups short narratives, halfway between reflections and biographical notes from an era of violence. Let us call them …
This colloquium is presented as an opportunity to discover and make visible histories that remained hidden, with the aim of questioning the way in which the past and present of …
Everything pours onto the web — the good, the bad, and the ugly. That at least is the impression that many will get from doing a simple Google search of …
A version of the insurrectional experience of the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) not as an added part of the violence deployed by SL, the Army, and the civilian population, …
There is a similarity between what happened during the years of political violence in the La Mar area and what occurred in 1923 with the despotic attitudes of those who …
In a few days, on Monday, May 17, thirty years will have passed since the start of the Shining Path insurgency. It began as a sinister flicker of distant shadows …
No more favorable conditions for reconciling the State with a society affected by genocide could exist than those offered by the Peruvian highlands, and Ayacucho in particular, the principal setting …
A compilation of books and documents on the internal armed conflict in Peru.
Abimael Guzmán, the founder and supreme leader of Sendero Luminoso captured 17 years ago, wrote a book collecting documents, part of his autobiography, and his legal defense, his attorney Alfredo …
THE INFORMATION CENTER was created by the Defensoría del Pueblo to house the information compiled and produced by the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, the documentary archives of the …
"Hatred is a central feeling in history. A destructive and rupturing passion oriented toward the elimination — real or symbolic — of the hated object, which even seeks to go …
An interview with Gustavo Gorritti on the reissue of his book "Sendero: Historia de la guerra milenaria en el Perú" makes clear that the Maoist insurgency has never stopped worrying …
From the twentieth century onward, the military built a development project centered on security, while also becoming the most professionalized segment of the State. Their crisis is, in some way, …
After the auspicious reception of Abril rojo (2006) by the public, expectations for a new work from Santiago Roncagliolo are understandable, especially since it addresses the theme that earned him …
The controversy that arose over Lika Mutal's sculpture, El ojo que llora, prompts me to reflect on the opinions that were expressed at that time. I am particularly interested in …
The Peruvian military has no interest in the judgment of history because they have everything to lose in it. The conventional wisdom about the war they waged with Sendero is …
Víctor Polay Campos, one of the leaders of the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru, recounts his own story. Among the notable facts, the following can be mentioned: in 1972 he is …
In the following work, an attempt will be made to develop the causes of the so-called political-military success of the P.C.P. - Sendero Luminoso during the 1980s, what were clearly …
Chronology of the main events that occurred in Peru during the years of the internal armed conflict, from 1980 to 2000.
On October 13, 2006, the National Criminal Court issued a ruling in Consolidated Case No. 560-03. This case involved the trial of several dozen murders and acts of sabotage perpetrated …
This work recounts the history and characterizes the acts perpetrated by Sendero Luminoso in a manner quite different from what most authors had accustomed us to. In the presentation of …
This book contains a set of essays and interviews produced over the last twenty years and coincides with many of the CVR's conclusions written subsequently. It also specifies some differences …
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 …
In the 1950s, the Peruvian left underwent a process of ideological atomization that divided it into three camps: the Muscovites, the Maoists, and the Trotskyists. That division was fueled by …
Peru called elections for the first time in twelve years in 1980. Sendero Luminoso was one of the few leftist groups that did not take part and instead chose to …
"En las fauces de las fieras" brings together three extraordinary stories that address, with bold prose, the ever-relevant theme of political violence in society and the way it intrudes upon …
The book, divided into two parts, offers a counterinsurgency and military forces perspective. The author, Army Colonel Teodoro Hidalgo Morey, details, from his military viewpoint, the origins of the subversive …
This is not the first time in Peru's history that the indigenous population has borne the worst of social and political conflicts. Now, the CVR report gives us the possibility …
This work offers an approach to the changes experienced in a significant part of the views on political violence — and especially regarding human rights — constructed in Peru, highlighted …
The two decades we lived under political violence left a very deep mark on Peru. Thousands of innocent Peruvians, the majority peasants, but also neighborhood leaders, small business owners, ronderos, …
Abimael Guzmán, Edith Lagos, Osmán Morote, Víctor Polay, Néstor Cerpa and "Feliciano"; the attack on and liberation of the CRAS in Ayacucho, the massacre of eight journalists in Uchuraccay, the …
Today, despite a pseudo-democracy, Peru continues to be dominated by a sociopolitical elite strongly tied to North American investors and interests. The vast majority of Peruvians descend from those who …
This work is the personal testimony of Antonio Parodi Buendía, a writer by profession, who in 1987 embarked on a journey through the department of Ayacucho, which at that time …
In May 1991, the PCP Sendero Luminoso publicly declared that it had reached the stage of strategic equilibrium. What did this mean? In plainer terms, it means that its people's …
Mauro Rondinel is a writer from the city of Huanta. "Morir en Uchuraccay" is a novel structured in 19 chapters divided into four parts. In the book, Rondinel fictionalizes in …
For more than sixteen years a small group of individuals, calling themselves the "Partido Comunista del Perú" but better known as Sendero Luminoso, after the slogan that crowned their mouthpiece …
This text brings together the papers from the international seminar "From War to Peace" ("De la guerra a la paz"), which was held in two sessions. The first, called "From …
This book critically analyzes the political history of Peru in general, and of Huancavelica in particular, over the last 60 years following President Leguía, years in which the traditional influence …
Two years after the founder of Sendero Luminoso, Abimael Guzmán — President Gonzalo — was caught in a Lima apartment dancing Zorba the Greek with a trusted militiawoman, the Army …
The reflections that follow in these pages share the common thread of having been written from within the experience itself. They were not constructed as a dynamic exercise, although without …
The author presents seventeen essays aimed at Peru's ruling classes in order to better interpret the country's reality. The first eight essays emphasize cultural heterogeneity and the consequences of having …
This book reflects the modest wisdom of a man who spent decades traveling the roads of Peru, bending his back and "sweating it out," as he himself says, in order …
Stories inspired by the years of terrorist violence in Peru. The first story, "El Barranquino," narrates the life of a young man on the threshold of youth and in search …
The present book by the French Peruvianist Roland Forgues, "Perú, Entre el desafío de la violencia y el sueño de lo posible" (Peru, Between the Challenge of Violence and the …
The work begins by summarizing the conception of the world, life, and humanity from both Marxist and Christian philosophical perspectives; it then addresses the historical-cultural evolution that gave rise to …
Never before has public opinion seemed so decisive regarding the need to apply measures against social violence, crisis and threats of destruction. Perhaps because televised street interviews and opinion polls …
The chapters of reflection that follow have been formulated progressively, moving from the most apparent to the most profound, always adhering to the facts as seen from an ethical perspective. …
The present work aims to recount in an objective manner the violent acts carried out by the Partido Comunista Peruano "Sendero Luminoso," with its leader Abimael Guzmán at the helm. …
The book is divided into eleven chapters. In the first, which bears the same name as the book, an attempt is made to provide a general overview of the process …
In 1989, the newspaper "Amauta" noted that the ideological struggle, like no other form of struggle, cannot be separate from the war process that tends to cover the national scene. …
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