Martha Huatay Ruiz, head of Socorro Popular and member of the Metropolitan Lima Committee of the PCP-SL, was captured. Her capture is part of the disarticulation of the Shining Path structure in Lima after the capture of Abimael Guzman.
In 1996, the Sala Penal Especial de Lima issued sentences in two significant cases. On April 20, 1996, Edgar Efraín Lozano Lozano, Martha Huatay Ruiz, and Osman Morote Barrionuevo were sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against public tranquility. Later, on July 31, 1996, Víctor Hugo Castillo Mezzich …