Murder of Saúl Cantoral
Saúl Cantoral, president of the Mining Federation, was assassinated in 1989 in San Juan de Lurigancho by the Rodrigo Franco Command, a paramilitary group linked to the APRA government. The mining unions responded with a 24-hour strike and proposed self-defense of their organizations.
Saul Cantoral, president of the Mining Federation, was assassinated in San Juan de Lurigancho by the Rodrigo Franco Command, a paramilitary group. El Diario denounced this assassination as a sign of the genocide of the APRA government, although alluding mainly to the 1986 prison massacre. The miners' unions, in response to the murders of Cantoral, Consuelo García and Víctor López, called a 24-hour strike, calling for self-defense of their organizations. At the end of 1989, the murders of miners' leaders in Canto Grande were covered up, attributing them to the PCP-SL when in reality they responded to the paramilitary group Comando Rodrigo Franco.