Murder of Marcelino Valencia Álvaro
Attorney Marcelino Valencia Álvaro was murdered on September 29, 1990 in Santo Tomás, Chumbivilcas, Cuzco. This crime occurred during a period of intense violence in the province, where the PCP-SL carried out multiple selective assassinations against authorities and civilians.
On September 29, 1990, in Santo Tomás, province of Chumbivilcas, lawyer Marcelino Valencia Álvaro was murdered. This crime occurred in a context of intense violence in the province of Chumbivilcas, where the PCP-SL carried out multiple violent actions against authorities and civilians. The murder took place a few months after the case known as "the Chumbivilcas case", where an army patrol had committed serious human rights violations in the area between April and May 1990. The province of Chumbivilcas was one of the most affected by the violence, concentrating a significant number of the victims in the department of Cuzco during the internal armed conflict.