Murder of Leonidas Gomez Yalico
Leonidas Gómez Yalico, union leader of CENTROMIN - Peru, was assassinated in 1988 in the city of Cerro de Pasco. His death was part of a series of selective assassinations against union leaders carried out by PCP-SL militants.
Leonidas Gómez Yalico was a union leader of CENTROMIN - Peru who was assassinated in the city of Cerro de Pasco in 1988. His death occurred in the context of death threats to political authorities and political and union leaders in the city since 1980. He was one of three CENTROMIN union leaders assassinated in that period, along with Tomas Miranda Trinidad (1986) and Seferino Requis (1989). The execution of attacks against public and private institutions, as well as the annihilation of local authorities or trade unionists in the city of Cerro de Pasco, was the responsibility of PCP-SL militants.