Vatican drug trafficker's tuition fee to PCP-SL
Drug trafficker Demetrio Peñaherrera 'Vaticano' paid registration fees to the PCP-SL for six months in 1989 in Uchiza, in addition to collaborating with medicines, clothes and vehicles. This payment was part of the quota system that the Shining Path imposed on drug trafficking firms in the area.
Demetrio Peñaherrera, known as 'Vaticano,' a drug trafficker from the Uchiza area, testified to the police that he paid tuition to the PCP-SL for six months in 1989. In addition to this obligatory payment, Vaticano collaborated with the PCP-SL by providing medicines, sweaters, boots and lending vehicles. However, it claimed not to have collaborated with arms, explosives or ammunition. At the end of December of that year, he was summoned by a Shining Path commander known as 'Liborio' to another meeting in the hamlet of Pampayacu. This payment was part of the quota system that the PCP-SL had established so that the drug trafficking firms could operate "legally" in the area under their control.