Detention of Jesús Oropesa Chonta
Jesús Oropesa Chonta, a peasant leader, was arrested by members of the Civil Guard in Puquio, Ayacucho, on July 27, 1984 on charges of terrorism. His subsequent forced disappearance caused political commotion and was the subject of debate in the Peruvian Senate.
On July 27, 1984, members of the Civil Guard arrested Jesús Oropesa Chonta in Puquio, Ayacucho, on an alleged terrorism charge. Oropesa Chonta was a peasant leader in the area. His detention was followed by his forced disappearance, which caused a commotion in the country's political circles. The case was later mentioned in August 1984 when Minister Luis Pércovich Roca spoke in the Senate about the case, and was included among the successive reports of disappearances that generated national alarm along with other cases such as that of journalist Jaime Ayala Sulca and the discovery of mass graves in Pucayacu.