Dynamite attack on Yamobamba hydroelectric power plant
Dynamite attack by the PCP-Sendero Luminoso that destroyed the Yamobamba hydroelectric plant on July 18, 1993, leaving the city of Huamachuco without electricity for more than 8 months.
On July 18, 1993, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso carried out a bomb attack that completely destroyed the Yamobamba hydroelectric plant, which supplied electricity to the city of Huamachuco. As a result of the attack, the entire city was without electricity for more than 8 months. This attack took place in the context of an intense campaign of subversive actions by the PCP-SL in the province of Sanchez Carrion between 1990 and 1993, a period in which terror was definitively installed among the inhabitants of the provincial capital. The attack on the electrical infrastructure was part of the Shining Path's strategy of putting pressure on the provincial centers through dynamiting, blackouts and calls for armed strikes.