Armed strike against municipal elections
Armed strike called by Shining Path on November 3, 1989 to boycott municipal elections in Lima. The attempted armed march two days earlier resulted in a confrontation with three subversives killed, 24 wounded and more than 140 arrested.
The PCP-Sendero Luminoso called an armed strike on November 3, 1989 with the intention of boycotting the municipal elections of that day. Two days before the strike, on November 1, the PCP-SL attempted to carry out an armed march as a form of propaganda and agitation, which resulted in a violent confrontation that ended with three subversives dead, 24 people wounded and more than 140 arrested. In view of these events, the government ordered the Armed Forces to be in charge of internal order in Lima and Callao within the framework of the state of emergency. The armed strike demonstrated the limited political advances of the PCP-SL in Lima, although it did not achieve the objectives desired by its promoters.