Murder of Manuel Soto and Víctor Lozano
Manuel Soto, director of CICEP and university professor, and Víctor Lozano, peasant leader, were assassinated on January 12, 1989 in Junín during the period of expanding political violence in the region.
On January 12, 1989, Manuel Soto, director of the Center for Campesino Research and Popular Education (CICEP), a sociologist and professor at the National University of Central Peru, and Victor Lozano, a campesino leader, were assassinated. The text of the CVR report mentions this event but does not provide additional details about the circumstances of the assassination, the specific perpetrators or the immediate context of the killings. This event occurred during a period of intense PCP-SL activity in the Junin region, particularly in the Canipaco and Cunas areas.