Antapampa Cooperative Invasion
In January 1977, community farmers invaded the Antapampa Cooperative in Cuzco, protesting their exclusion from the benefits of agrarian reform. The cooperative was liquidated in 1980.
The Antapampa Cooperative was invaded in January 1977 by community farmers who had been left out of the agrarian reform. This event was part of the process of land seizures that occurred after the agrarian reform benefited only 23% of the peasants in the Cuzco region, leaving the remaining 77%, mainly peasant communities, without access to land. The cooperative was finally liquidated in 1980 as a result of these peasant mobilizations. This case exemplifies how the communal peasants initiated the seizure of land belonging to the associative companies of which, in theory, they were members.