Incursion in Yorongos

On December 16, 1987, the MRTA raided the village of Yorongos as part of the 'Tupac Amaru Vive' Military Campaign. This action was part of a series of raids and takeovers of villages that the Tupac Amaru Army (ET) of the Northeastern Front carried out between October and December 1987 in the department of San Martin. The military campaign had been initiated on October 8, 1987 under the command of Víctor Polay Campos (c) Rolando, Néstor Cerpa (c) Evaristo and Miguel Rincón (c) Francisco, who had trained their forces militarily and politically in the Pongo de Caynarachi-Shanusi area during the previous months. This incursion was one of the last actions of the first military campaign before the department was declared a state of emergency.