Presence of PCP-SL in the Ucayali River
PCP-SL established a presence in the Ucayali River between the end of 1989 and the beginning of 1990, raiding villages along the Tamaya River and Lake Imiria, establishing Open Popular Committees and Organized Committees. The Navy responded with a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the riverside populations.
Between 1989 and 1990, the Navy applied a counter-subversive strategy based on terrorizing the populations settled along the banks of the Ucayali River and its tributaries. The presence of PCP-SL in the Ucayali River occurred between the end of 1989 and the beginning of 1990. PCP-SL appeared in the Tamaya and Imiria rivers at the end of 1989, when the Main Force of the Upper Huallaga made incursions into all the villages, imposing its organization and establishing Open Popular Committees and Organized Committees. The PCP-SL entered Puerto Alegre on November 4, 1989, one day after the incursion into Masisea. During the 1990 elections, the Shining Path supporters stationed themselves in an esplanade near Puerto Alegre to prevent, under threat of death, the inhabitants of Tamaya and Imiria from going to Masisea to vote.