PCP-SL intensifies actions in Satipo
In 1989, PCP-SL intensified its actions in Satipo, achieving absolute control of the Ene River and Alto Tambo by 1990. During this year it increased looting, indoctrination, formed popular committees and carried out selective assassinations of indigenous leaders such as Isaías Charete.
In 1989, the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL) significantly intensified its actions in the province of Satipo, reaching absolute control of the entire Ene River and the Alto Tambo up to the Poyeni bend by 1990. During this year, PCP-SL increased its actions in the area, carrying out looting accompanied by initial indoctrination of the population through meetings that lasted several hours. The presence of the PCP-SL in the area became generalized and open, forming popular committees such as the two established in Otica. On February 13, 1989, the PCP-SL assassinated Isaías Charete, president of OCARE, in the native community of Tzomaveni in the Ene, and on November 14 killed six people in one of the repeated attacks against communities showing resistance such as Cutivireni and those of the lower Tambo.