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 22, 1991, the Peruvian police achieved a significant breakthrough against the Shining Path (PCP-SL) by arresting key members, including Tito Valle Travezaño and Yovanka Pardavé, after a six-month surveillance operation. This operation was part of a series of coordinated efforts to dismantle the leadership and infrastructure 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 May 1992, key figures of the Shining Path (PCP-SL), including Yovanka Pardavé, Tito Valle Travesaño, and Deodato Juárez Cruzatt, were killed in the prison of Cantogrande. Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the Shining Path, was captured along with his companion Elena Iparraguirre. This event marked a significant blow to …