Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
"Peruvian Soldiers Storm Diplomatic Mansion"
News article
By: Lynn Monahan
Date: April 23, 1997
Source: The Associated Press
About the Author: Lynn Monahan is an Associated Press writer who covered Peruvian politics and society at the time of the Tupac Amaru hostage crisis. Her reports from Peru also included articles on Lori Berenson, an American accused of aiding Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) insurgents, as well as special interest articles on Peruvian society.
INTRODUCTION
Revolutionary movements developed in Latin American countries as a response to economic decline throughout the 1980s. As inflation reached rates as high as 10,000%, groups such as...
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