Capture of Víctor Polay Campos in Huancayo

Victor Polay Campos, leader and military chief of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), was captured in February 1989 at the Tourist Hotel in Huancayo. This capture represented a hard blow for the emerretist organization in the central region of Peru. Polay Campos' arrest occurred in a context of intensified counter-subversive operations in Junín. This event was one of several important setbacks suffered by the MRTA in 1989, which clearly decimated its political and military capacity in the region.