Twenty years after the final report of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the National Security Archive (NSA), a U.S. non-governmental organization that has worked to access confidential U.S. government documents for 38 years, has posted a collection of 22 cables and declassified intelligence reports dating from the days of the internal armed conflict in Peru.
The documents chronicle continual underestimation of the terrorist group Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), alleged government support of extrajudicial killings, amongst other revelations. The NSA notes that the current political crisis in Peru—where the government of Dina Boluarte faces a wave of popular protests— “demonstrates that the problems and legacies of Peru’s violent past are still very present today.”
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