Socorro Popular (called SoPo in PCP-SL documents) was an organization of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path that had a very complex structure. After its militarization in 1986, it came to displace the Metropolitan Committee in importance, managing to expand without ceasing to fulfill its initial functions in …
On July 28, 1988, hours before the presidential message for the National Holidays, the lawyer Manuel Febres Flores, president of the Association of Democratic Lawyers and defender of the Shining Path leader Osmán Morote, was assassinated in Lima. The crime was claimed by a self-styled 'Comando Rodrigo Franco' (CRF), which …
Martha Huatay was a lawyer who assumed the leadership of Socorro Popular (SoPo), an organization of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso with a very complex structure that, after its militarization in 1986, came to displace the Metropolitan Committee in importance. Socorro Popular acted almost always through its 'gray' or 'front' organizations, such …
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