Domínguez Flew. Attacks on the 22nd Command and the Residence of Army General Manuel Varela Unleash Unsettling Speculation About Their Authorship

"It is an error by the Dincote; they have committed a serious oversight." That was almost the only thing Interior Minister Juan Briones Dávila said to reporters in the early hours of Monday, outside the dynamited home of General Manuel Varela Gamarra, political-military commander of the Frente Huallaga. The comment caused consternation among those implicated, represented on the scene by police chiefs Antonio Ketín Vidal and Carlos Domínguez Solís, who limited themselves to maintaining disciplined silence. Domínguez's removal was agreed upon by the command on Tuesday afternoon. His replacement, PNP General Máximo Rivera Díaz — former executive director of the Dincote, former head of the Delta groups, and responsible for Public Order in Sector II (Lima and the Southern Cone) — is ideally suited for the post. Published August 1, 1996.