Capture of MRTA members in Pueblo Libre

On June 1, 1991, members of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) captured six members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) in the district of Pueblo Libre, Lima. This operation took place one day after another important capture in the Lima district of Jesus Maria, where Alberto Galvez Olaechea, leader of the MRTA, was arrested along with Rosa Luz Padilla. Gálvez Olaechea had escaped from the Canto Grande prison in July 1990 through a tunnel. These captures were part of the law enforcement operations against the subversive organization MRTA during the first year of Alberto Fujimori's government.