Murder of former union leader Alejandro Patiño in Morococha
The PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated Alejandro Patiño, a former union leader of Morococha with APRA affiliation, on the day the national mining strike began. Patiño had expressed his opposition to the strike called by the FNTMMSP.
On October 17, 1988, the day the national mining strike called by the Federation of Miners, Metallurgists and Steelworkers of Peru (FNTMMSP) began, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso assassinated Alejandro Patiño, former leader of the Morococha union. Patiño was an aprista (member of the PAP, the ruling party at the time) and had publicly expressed his opposition to the strike. This assassination took place in the context of intense mining union conflicts around the single national mining strike, where the PCP-SL sought to radicalize the union movement. The crime was part of a broader strategy of selective elimination of union leaders who did not align themselves with subversive objectives.