Progress of the PCP-SL in the SAIS Cahuide area
Between 1983 and 1984, the PCP-SL began its advance in the area of the SAIS Cahuide in Junín, carrying out its first incursion in December 1983 with simultaneous attacks on three production units. The group took advantage of the internal contradictions within the SAIS to gain allies among the communities.
The PCP-SL experienced a first moment of advance in the area of the SAIS Cahuide between 1983 and 1984, coinciding with its withdrawal from the area of Manta and Vilcas (Huancavelica) in 1983 when a military base was installed. The first PCP-SL incursion into SAIS Cahuide took place in December 1983, when they simultaneously attacked the Laive, Antapongo and Tucle-Rio de la Virgen production units with the aim of appropriating explosives, ammunition and heads of cattle. The PCP-SL took advantage of internal SAIS conflicts, particularly contradictions between partner and non-partner communities, as well as boundary disputes, to enter the communities and gain allies. In the last months of 1987, the smaller and more remote hamlets located to the southeast of the plateau began to be victims of looting of food, horses and forced recruitment.