In June 1991, three important leaders of Socorro Popular (SoPo), an organization of the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, were captured. Those arrested were Tito Valle Travesaño, Víctor Zavala Cataño and a leader whose name is not specified in this excerpt. Socorro Popular was a very complex structure that, after its militarization in …
On June 22, 1991, Professor Victor Zavala Cataño, who had links with the University of La Cantuta since the beginning of the internal war, was arrested by the GEIN (Special Intelligence Group). Zavala Cataño was a member of the leadership cell of Socorro Popular del Perú, an organization of the …
On June 23, 1991, one month after the military intervention in La Cantuta, the police arrested Víctor Zavala Cataño, accused of being the head of the PCP-SL's Planning and Annihilation Committee at the national level. This action was part of a series of arrests of the main leaders of the …
Operation of the Dircote (Directorate against Terrorism) that intercepted one of the main 'health depots' of the PCP-SL. In this operation, various members of the PCP-SL's health management cell were captured, many of them students from San Marcos. These captures were made possible by the previous arrest of Tito Valle …
In September 1992, Abimael Guzmán and almost all of his Central Committee were captured. This was probably the central factor in the abandonment of the Shining Path cadres at La Cantuta. The capture was preceded by a series of arrests of the main leaders of the PCP-SL, including Víctor Zavala …
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 …