Terrorism in Peru and Alberto Fujimori
Among the various countries forced to suffer the dementia of terrorism, there is Peru. An impressive saga of destruction was unleashed that generated tens of thousands of victims, which according to some, shores the seventy thousand dead, and economic losses of such magnitude that a new country could have been founded without external debt. (Jara, 2003, P.fifteen)
Developing
Defining terrorism as armed violent acts that threaten factors such as health, freedom and above all the life of people within a society, and that it is executed in an already planned and systematic way, in order to alter theConstitutional order through the creation of an environment that causes fear and terror. All this is approximately appreciable from the 80s and lasts for more than a decade with terrorist groups such as the Shining Path or the MRTA (Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) unleashing chaos and tragedies as in the Tarata attack in Miraflores, Lima Lima.
On the one hand, the Peruvian people were starting to go to the streets and live in fear because they did not know what could happen to them because they could not return alive to their homes in different ways in which terrorist groups exercised and acted inThe streets with the placement of the so -called carbombs, with the blasting of high voltage towers, with ambush and even selective murders, these movements began in provinces becoming increasingly recurring to the point where it reached the capital of Peru andIt was there when it began to be more relevant starting to become present in political decisions.
In this case, comparing with the terrorism that is found together with other groups such as ISIS, there is the similarity in which both situations seek to impose the ideologies that follow, as in the case of terrorism in Peru that was sought to impose the Marxist ideology-Socialist to all of Peru in a violent way regardless.
While this situation was lived in Peru, at that time the governor of Argentina Carlos Menem maintained the opinion that when our country was submitted in that situation, it would first try to dialogue with some authority of these movements and that to some extentIt is that some situations should be tolerated that attacking violence with violence according to him would be his solution, since from his criteria that ideology is not correct and much less the means are.
Alberto Fujimori and his means to annihilate terrorism
This former president when all these revolts begin begins to feel cornered with respect to what to do with terrorism and together with his advisor Vladimiro Montesinos, who was also the head of the intelligence service, began to make decisions to eliminate this through violent acts andBloods with the participation of the Armed Forces due to the coup d’etat that Fujimori gave in April 1992 in which it allowed their entry to the streets and operations. Starting with the slaughter that was in the Miguel Castro Castro prison in San Juan de Lurigancho, so that police being inside can execute several prisoners since it should be noted that it is in this prison where the greatest number of defendants were both treasonas of terrorism in itself, seeking to annihilate terrorism from within. There is also the case of the Cantuta where in the early hours of July 18, 1992 in which a professor and nine students were intervened by the Army Intelligence Group, the Colina Group, who with the help of infiltrated students were blamed for apologyTo terrorism.
The terrorists, realizing that Fujimori was acting in this way, they began to speak with the people, because they believed that a death of someone was paid with another death causing impetuous episodes to civilians to become more followed, directly affectingThe population with insecurity and fear creating a type of vicious circle in which one followed the other with the different operations and murders they performed.
On the part of the relatives of the people who were affected they saw these acts committed by the armed forces as anti -ethics, although they were in part because they were ending with lives, a thought in which several agreed, but unlike them, they believed it was the only way in which all these ideologies could be eradicated, continuing with family members, they come to the Inter -American Court of Human Rights to intercede.
Unlike a riot that occurred in a Venezuelan prison in Acarigua in May 2019 in which the police were the ones who tried notFrom this prison who tried to flee, this time it was everything contracted because those who were direct to kill were the armed forces because that were the intentions and instructions they received from Fujimori disguised as removals or only interventions.
Alberto Fujimori’s first government
To contextualize, Peru at that time was going through a crisis due to the corruption that the previous government belonging to the APRA party, along with the poverty and internal war that was lived in the country. For the year 1990 Alberto Fujimori becomes elected as president, during his term many shocking events occurred for the country, such as the so -called “Fujishook” due to the super inflation that was had, breaking with his proposal thus ignoring whatthat his advisors suggested or also the state autogolpe. In this way, demonstrating the authoritarian way in which he ruled, following what seemed to work by ignoring opinions and advice, to finally be classified as one of the most corrupt rulers in the world today.
To Peru being subject to an internal war, the mandate that Fujimori had during his first period had to be able to solve the conflicts that were in aspects such as terrorism or drug trafficking through initiative and boldness of executing a sentence for these cases. Within this period there were positive and negative aspects, for example, thanks to the "Fujishook", inflation could be reduced by having greater economic stability and the problems that were about the limits with Ecuador could also be solved. To contrast he becomes a corrupt state when giving privileges to those who violated rights for their benefit, also presents several attacks against democracy, such as the closing of Congress.
conclusion
After the investigation we can conclude that terrorism directly affected Alberto Fujimori’s decision -making, since the duty to defeat this was present during his first period of mandate. Always having this within their priorities being a problem that needed to solve it through the sentences and opinions that this character dictated. These used to be quite violent and cruel since Fujimori wanted to eradicate terrorism regardless.
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