Destruction of Huagal's cheese plant
In 1989, the PCP-SL destroyed the Huagal cheese plant in San Marcos, distributing the cattle and land among the members and setting fire to the machinery as part of its strategy to liquidate associative enterprises.
In 1989, an armed group of Shining Path guerrillas destroyed the Huagal cheese plant in San Marcos province. As part of the PCP-SL's strategy of liquidating associative enterprises, the attackers distributed the cattle and land among the members and set fire to the machinery. This attack was part of a systematic pattern of destruction of cooperatives and agrarian enterprises in the region, which the PCP-SL used to gain support among peasants who had been excluded from the benefits of the Agrarian Reform. The liquidation of associative enterprises was a constant in the province of San Marcos since 1989.