First armed strike in Lima
On February 2, 1989, the Shining Path PCP called the first city-wide armed strike in Lima, marking a significant escalation in the strategy of bringing armed conflict to the Peruvian capital.
On February 2, 1989, the Shining Path PCP called the first armed strike in the entire city of Lima. This event marked an escalation in the subversive strategy of bringing armed conflict to the nation's capital. The armed strike was part of a broader strategy of the PCP-SL to expand its presence in Lima, where it had already carried out previous actions such as the first armed strike on the Central Highway on January 19 of the same year. Between July 1986 and March 1989, there were 261 attacks and bombings in the city of Lima, the context in which this first general armed strike in the capital took place.