Emergency decree in Lima and Callao
The Council of Ministers declared a state of emergency in Lima and Callao for sixty days through supreme decree 036.82.IN in August 1982. The measure was in response to the increase in terrorist attacks by the PCP-SL and labor conflicts in the capital.
The Council of Ministers declared a state of emergency in Lima and Callao for sixty days through Supreme Decree 036.82.IN. This measure was taken in the context of a growing wave of terrorist attacks by the PCP-SL both in the capital and in the interior of the country. Prime Minister Manuel Ulloas Elías declared that there was coordination or coincidence of terrorist attacks with the inevitable labor conflicts, alluding to the civil construction strikes and others. This declaration of emergency was one of the first measures of Belaunde Terry's government to confront political violence in the country's capital.