He was one of the most wanted men in Peru. His head had been put at a price of 2 million sols (approximately 455,000 euros). Jorge Quispe Palomino, aka “Comrade Raul”, was number two on Shining Path, after his brother, Victor. A Maoist guerrilla whose remains of activity remain in the south central zone of Peru, in particular in the region known by its acronym, the Vraem (“valleys of the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro rivers”).
His death was revealed by the high command of the armed forces in a statement released Tuesday, March 30. She’s there “Consequence of chronic kidney disease aggravated by his injuries”, inflicted during a military operation in October.
Jorge Quispe Palomino reportedly died on January 27, but his death was hidden by his troops for several months “So as not to demoralize the terrorists”, said interim Peruvian President Francisco Sagasti, who welcomed the “End of a threat” in this mountainous and forest region, where little by little “Beheaded the terrorist groups which continue to ravage” The area. A ” hard blow ” for terrorism, believes the analyst in criminal affairs Pedro Yaranga, in the columns of the daily El Comercio.
Guerrilla pockets
The Shining Path (its full name Peruvian Communist Party – Shining Path, PCP-SL) was founded in the 1970s by philosophy professor Abimaël Guzman and engaged in a war against the state in 1980. The conflict armed forces have led to the death of nearly 70,000 Peruvians in twenty years, most of the Andean peasants, who speak Quechua as well as the Amerindian populations of the Amazon.
In its 2003 final report, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission established that 54% of deaths were attributable to the terrorist group and 30% to the military (the rest to civilian militias and other terrorist groups).
After the capture of Abimaël Guzman in 1992 and his life sentence, the organization gradually broke up and divided. Most of its members are now in prison, but pockets of guerrillas remain. The group, withdrawn into the Vraem, coca production valley and the heart of drug trafficking, no longer has much to do with the original SL and “No longer has any contact with the old Sentier”, explains historian Antonio Zapata. In 2018, it renamed itself the militarized Peruvian Communist Party (MPCP).
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