Capture of Socorro Popular leaders
Capture of three leaders of Socorro Popular of the PCP-SL in June 1991, including Tito Valle Travesaño and Víctor Zavala Cataño. The organization had to recompose itself after these arrests.
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 1986, displaced the Metropolitan Committee in importance. After this capture, the cell was recomposed and the leadership was taken over by lawyer Martha Huatay, who was finally captured in October 1992.