Murder of Mayor Prudencio Sulca Huayta
The provincial mayor of San Antonio de Putina, Prudencio Sulca Huayta, was assassinated on July 17, 1991 in Puno. This crime was part of a campaign of selective attacks by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso against local authorities.
On July 17, 1991, the provincial mayor of San Antonio de Putina, Prudencio Sulca Huayta, was assassinated in the department of Puno. This crime took place in the context of an intensification of selective attacks by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, which followed its peculiar symbolic pattern of attacking local authorities and other targets. The assassination was part of a series of attacks against municipal authorities and public officials during the so-called 'red month' of the PCP-SL and the following months.