Arrest of Marcelino Valencia
On September 24, 1990, drunken policemen arrested in Chumbivilcas the lawyer Marcelino Valencia, advisor to the Agrarian League and defender of peasant communities. The event occurred in a context of intense violence between law enforcement, the Shining Path PCP and peasant patrols in the highland provinces of Cusco.
On September 24, 1990, a group of drunken policemen, according to testimonies, arrested lawyer Marcelino Valencia in Chumbivilcas. Valencia was an advisor to the Agrarian League and a defender of peasant communities. This event occurred in the context of military and police operations in the highland provinces of Cusco and Apurimac, where the Shining Path PCP, the forces of law and order and the peasant patrols were confronting each other. The arrest took place during a period of intense violence in the area, characterized by army attacks on communities suspected of supporting the PCP-SL and actions by peasant patrols against subversion.