Assassination of Enrique Castilla, PUM textile leader
PCP-SL assassinates Enrique Castilla, leader of PUM in Lima
On October 31, 1989, Enrique Castilla, textile leader and member of the Central Committee of the PUM, was assassinated in Lima by militants of the PCP-SL. This assassination was unanimously condemned by the IU and its members. Eduardo Cáceres, then Secretary General of the PUM, declared before various media that his party would declare war on the PCP-SL.