Judge Dr. Elba Greta Minaya declared the Habeas Corpus petition founded and ordered the immediate release of Ernesto Castillo Paez, under the responsibility of the then Minister of the Interior General EP Adolfo Alvarado Fournier, the Chief of the National Police General PNP Victor Alva Plasencia and the Chief of …
Members of DIRCOTE captured Lucero Cumpa Miranda, MRTA leader, in the Lima district of Magdalena del Mar. This was her second capture, as she had previously been rescued on March 11 by a violent action of MRTA while she was being transferred to the Judicial Power. The rescue of Cumpa …
On March 11, 1991, an MRTA commando carried out one of the most impressive and violent actions in Lima to rescue Lucero Cumpa Miranda. The MRTA leader was being transferred to the Judicial Power along with Nelly Evans Risco, a member of the PCP-SL, in a truck belonging to the …
General EP (r) Adolfo Alvarado Fournier was replaced as Minister of the Interior by General EP (r) Víctor Malca Villanueva on March 15, 1991. This ministerial change came about as a consequence of two critical events that generated political pressure: the letter bomb attack against Augusto Zúñiga Paz, a COMISEDH …
Augusto Zúñiga Paz, lawyer for the Human Rights Commission (COMISEDH) and sponsor of the disappeared student Ernesto Castillo Páez, was the victim of a letter bomb attack. The attack caused the amputation of his left forearm. This attack occurred in a context of political violence and was one of the …