Between party guerrilla and societal guerrilla. The Tupac Amaru Front of the Revolutionary Left Movement

Lázaro Aquino T.G. · Revista de Estudios Politicos (2023) · DOI: 10.18042/cepc/rep.199.06

Resumen

From a political violence approach, rather than a focus, the article aims to explain a political-military event, led by the Túpac Amaru Front of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), a guerrilla group raised in arms in Peru, specifically in the department of Junín, in the year 1965. The qualitative method in its narrative design modality, served to know the effort deployed, before and during the armed conflict, to insert itself in the Andean and Amazonian communities located in the area of​ influence of Pucutá-Satipo. It is concluded that the Tupac Amaru Front evolved from a party guerrilla project to a type of societal guerrilla. Being defeated by joint forces of the Armed and Police Forces, in approximately seven months of military, political, psychological and repressive operations, especially of the populations involved in the conflict.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional del Centro del Perú