First FEDIP-SM Founding Congress
Founding congress of FEDIP-SM held in May 1987 with a majority participation of provincial bases. This organization would become the main regional leadership body and interlocutor between the people and the authorities.
In May 1987, the first Founding Congress of the Frente de Defensa de los Intereses del Pueblo de San Martín (FEDIP-SM) was held, with a majority of the provincial bases in attendance. This congress formalized the creation of an organization that would become the main leadership body in the region, with real decision-making power and as an interlocutor between the people and both regional and national authorities. FEDIP-SM emerged in a context of intense social mobilization and struggle for regional demands, including regional autonomy for San Martin. By 1986, the MIR-VR already had absolute control of the leadership of FEDIP-SM, having previously infiltrated popular and peasant organizations.