Mobilization of more than 2,000 peasants in Andahuaylas
On May 1, 1973, more than 2,000 peasants took to the streets of Andahuaylas demanding the full implementation of agrarian reform. This mass mobilization was motivated by the slowness of the land adjudication process and led to the formation of the FEPCA.
On May 1, 1973, more than 2,000 peasants took to the streets of Andahuaylas demanding the full application of the agrarian reform. This massive mobilization was motivated by the slow and prolonged process of land allocation and adjudication established by Law No. 17716, which exacerbated the peasant population. The protest took place in a context of widespread discontent with the hacienda system that still dominated provincial society, despite the military government's promises of reform. This event was part of a process of mobilizations that led to the formation of the Andahuaylas Provincial Federation of Peasants (FEPCA) in 1973, an organization that would acquire great notoriety the following year with the land seizures of 1974.