Capture of Benedicto Peña, mayor of Lagunas, a pro-aprista mayor.
Benedicto Peña, aprista mayor of the Lagunas district in Yurimaguas, was captured along with other apristas while distributing Comando Rodrigo Franco flyers, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
The Ministry of the Interior issued a communiqué informing about the capture of Benedicto Peña, mayor of the district of Lagunas, Yurimaguas. Peña was arrested in the company of other apristas while they were handing out leaflets of the Comando Rodrigo Franco. The Comando Rodrigo Franco was a paramilitary group linked to the APRA party that operated during Alan Garcia's administration. This arrest was evidence of the connections between local APRA authorities and paramilitary groups operating in the context of the political violence of the time.