Pércovich's presentation on the Oropesa case
Interior Minister Luis Pércovich Roca spoke in the Senate about the case of peasant leader Jesús Oropesa Chonta, who was arrested in July 1984 in Puquio for alleged terrorism and later disappeared.
Interior Minister Luis Pércovich Roca spoke in the Senate about the Oropesa case. This case referred to the detention of Jesús Oropesa Chonta, who had been arrested on July 27, 1984 by members of the Civil Guard on an alleged terrorism complaint in Puquio, Ayacucho. The disappearance of the peasant leader Jesús Oropesa Chonta caused a commotion in the political arena at the beginning of August 1984. The Oropesa case was one of several incidents that generated successive reports of disappearances during that period.