Murder of the aprista provincial mayor of Huancayo César Valentín Palomino
César Valentín Palomino, provincial mayor of Huancayo, was assassinated on November 11, 1988. His death is part of a pattern of selective assassinations of municipal authorities by subversive groups in Junin.
On November 11, 1988, César Valentín Palomino, provincial mayor of Huancayo, was assassinated. This crime took place in a context of intensifying political violence in the department of Junin, where both the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the MRTA were active. The assassination of democratically elected authorities was a recurrent tactic of subversive groups to weaken the State and generate terror among the population. This case is part of a series of assassinations of municipal authorities that intensified during 1988 and 1989.