1932 Trujillo uprising

1932 Trujillo uprising
Part of the Third Militarism

Aprista troops occupy a trench in the neighbourhood of Mansiche
DateJuly 7–27, 1932
Location
Result
  • Peruvian government victory
  • Subsequent persecution and executions of Apristas.
  • Destruction of the city by a ground and air campaign.
Belligerents
Peruvian Aprist Party
Supported by:
 Soviet Union (denied)
Government of Peru
Supported by:
Revolutionary Union
Commanders and leaders
Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
Manuel Barreto Risco 
Alfredo Tello Salavarria 
Leoncio Manffaurt (MIA)
Luis M. Sánchez Cerro
Alfredo Miró Quesada
Manuel Ruíz Bravo
Eloy Gaspar Ureta
Units involved
Thousands of insurrect men 1st Military Region
Strength
10,000–15,000 rebels
Casualties and losses
952–1,500 killed
9,000–13,000 captured
327–513 killed
7,000–9,000 Apristas Trujillans civilians 

The 1932 Trujillo uprising (Spanish: Sublevación de Trujillo) was an armed revolt carried out by members of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) against the government of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro that took place in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo in July 1932.

It started with an uprising led by Manuel "Búfalo" Barreto Risco and Agustín Haya de la Torre that took over the Ricardo O'Donovan Barracks on July 7, eventually spreading citywide until its suppression by the Peruvian Armed Forces by July 10, with the last reprisals taking place on July 27. In Aprista historiography, it forms part of the political group's "year of brutality" and of the "civil war of 1932–1933" due to the period's armed nature.