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 …
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 …
On October 28, 1992, the Peruvian government released a letter signed by key members of the Shining Path, including Osmán Morote and Martha Huatay, supporting a peace initiative proposed by Abimael Guzmán, also known as 'Presidente Gonzalo'. The letter, addressed to President Alberto Fujimori, called for peace talks to end …
