State of emergency throughout the country
The Peruvian government decreed a state of emergency throughout the country for sixty days on May 30, 1983, suspending individual guarantees due to repeated acts of sabotage against the electrical system and the escalation of terrorist violence.
On May 30, 1983, the Peruvian government decreed a state of emergency throughout the country for sixty days. This measure was taken in view of repeated acts of sabotage at different points of the interconnected electrical system and the growing wave of terrorist violence. Several of the individual guarantees were suspended. This decision came days after the government had already decreed a state of emergency in Lima and Callao on May 25 due to a Civil Guard strike.