Peru has had a disturbing legacy of political violence and human rights violations. As a result, the National Security Archive has recently published forty-one declassified U.S. government documents, detailing human rights violations over the past 20 years in Peru. The documents record a progression of events through three Peruvian regimes (Presidents Fernando Belaunde, Alan Garcia, and Alberto...

Once again, the inestimable National Security Archive (NSA) has created a timely and useful electronic briefing book with declassified documents that shed light on recent events. In this case, the event is the accidental shoot down of a civilian aircraft carrying missionaries in Peru on April 20. The site offers the full text of thirteen declassified documents from 1994 which shed light on...