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Contents. 2022 Peruvian self-coup attempt. On 7 December 2022, Pedro Castillo, the then- President of Peru, made an attempt to dissolve the Congress amidst looming removal proceedings. This move included the immediate imposition of a curfew, an attempt to establish an emergency government, and a call for the formation of a constituent assembly ...
2022-2023. The CIA's activities within Peru increased as they began to support Keiko Fujimori. The CIA allegedly funneled money covertly into parties opposing then-President Pedro Castillo, motivating regime change in order to overthrow Castillo, of whom the CIA saw as a potential ally to Cuba.
While flying into the Loreto Region of Peru, Bowers, her daughter Charity, husband Jim, and six-year-old son Cory were being followed by a United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) observation plane. The Peruvian Air Force was operating as part of the Air Bridge Denial Program. The CIA did not attempt to identify the tail number of the ...
The Peruvian Internal Conflict[27] is an ongoing armed conflict between the Government of Peru and the Maoist guerilla group Shining Path and its remnants. The conflict's main phase began on 17 May 1980 and ended in December 2000. [28] From 1982 to 1997 the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement waged its own insurgency as a Marxist–Leninist ...
60,000–80,000 suspected leftist sympathizers killed [ 8 ] 400–500 killed in cross-border operations [ 8 ] 400,000+ political prisoners [ 9 ] Operation Condor (Portuguese: Operação Condor; Spanish: Operación Cóndor) was a campaign of political repression by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America, [ 10 ][ 11 ...
In May 1961, the ruler of the Dominican Republic, right-wing dictator Rafael Trujillo, was murdered with weapons supplied by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). [ 32 ] [ 33 ] An internal CIA memorandum states that a 1973 Office of Inspector General investigation into the murder disclosed "quite extensive Agency involvement with ...
Sources: Amnesty International [5] Human Rights Watch. Following the September 11 attacks, the CIA engaged in the torture of detainees at CIA-run black sites [6][7][8] and sent detainees to be tortured by friendly governments in a manner contravening both US and international law. [9][10][11][12] The existence of black sites was first published ...
Vladimiro Lenin Ilich Montesinos Torres (Spanish pronunciation: [bla.ð̞iˌmi.ɾo ˌle.nĩn iˌlit͡ʃ mõn̪.t̪eˌsi.nos ˈt̪o.res]; born May 20, 1945) is a Peruvian former intelligence officer and lawyer, most notorious for his role as the head of Peru's National Intelligence Service (SIN) during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori.