Announced Coup
Various sources agree that it was 200 to 250 Shining Path members who last weekend seized for five hours the nearly defenseless district of Aucayacu, with 15,000 inhabitants, in the province of Leoncio Prado, in the department of Huánuco — an action in which they killed only one civilian driver and wounded three police officers who confronted them while vastly outnumbered and outgunned. Published August 8, 1996.