Jopaqkama K’anchaq Tutayrapun: Electricity as a weapon of war during the internal armed conflict of Peru

Abstract

During the years of 1980 and 2000, electricity ceased to be the symbol of light and industrial development in Peru, and began to mean the deep fear of a population intimidated by the constant attacks on the State and its national electrical system. Understanding why a subversive group resorted to a human development resource to use it as a weapon of destruction is the objective of this study which, through a chronological line, will explain how the main milestones of the national electrical industry determined Peruvian social development among the XIX and XX centuries, and its subsequent effect during the years of internal violence.