(CNN Spanish) -
The Joint Command of the Armed Forces of Peru confirmed this Tuesday the death last January of Jorge Quispe Palomino, alias "Comrade Raúl", a member of the leadership of the central committee of the remnant Shining Path faction in the region known as the Valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro rivers (VRAEM).
According to the information in the press release, the death of Quispe Palomino occurred more than three months after a confrontation that took place on October 29, 2020 when patrols of the Armed Forces.
and the National Police carried out an operation in a sector called "Banderita", in the territorial area of the VRAEM, district of Canayre, in the department of Ayacucho, in the south-central zone of the Peruvian Andes.
In that confrontation, the statement said, three alleged insurgents were killed and five others were wounded.
Quispe Palomino, who suffered from chronic kidney disease, was hit by an "aerotactic" fire attack on nearby facilities and camps, the report says.
The military statement says that "thanks to intelligence work", it was confirmed that alias "Comrade Raúl", who was also part of the clan of the "Quispe Palomino brothers", died on January 27 as a result of the worsening of his condition as a result of the wound he suffered in the October attack.
The statement said that the information about the death of Quispe Palomino was hidden from the guerrilla cadres to "avoid demoralization and other negative effects for the terrorist organization's purposes."
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The Shining Path emerged in the 1980s in the Andean region of Peru and proclaimed its goal of overthrowing the state in order to establish a new regime.
To that end, it terrorized peasants, union leaders, politicians, government officials, and even other left-wing organizations, in addition to attacks on public buildings and infrastructure.
The organization began to regress after the arrest in 1992 of its main leader, Abimael Guzmán, alias "Comrade Gonzalo", and was accentuated with the capture of his successor, Eleuterio Flores Hala, alias "Comrade Artemio", 20 years later.
The VRAEM faction is considered the last remnant of the Shining Path.
In 2015, the United States justice accused brothers Víctor and Jorge Quispe Palomino of facilitating cocaine trafficking to finance terrorist activity.
In 2017, the US State Department offered a $ 5 million reward for Víctor Quispe Palomino.
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