Treason to the Homeland and Terrorist Repentance. Crime of Terrorism

As Dr. Peña Cabrera notes in his book "Traición a la patria y arrepentimiento terrorista," the anti-terrorism legislation — that is, Legislative Decree 046, Laws 24953 and 24651, Legislative Decree 25475, and Legislative Decrees 921 through 927 — has antecedents dating back to legislation enacted in 1930, proving that the legislation issued by the de facto government of Alberto Fujimori and that issued by the Toledo government are part of an entire process of repressive, politically persecutory legislation, which has in most cases been enacted by de facto regimes operating under a state of exception. Peru, for almost two-thirds of its republican life, was governed by regimes born of military coups or electoral fraud, meaning that what has functioned is a pseudo-representative democracy. In the 1930s, and in response to the class struggle situation of that moment — in which the proletariat founded its Party in 1928 — legislation emerged aimed at the political persecution of communists, the working class, and the people, in defense of the constitutionally established order. (Excerpt from the preface).