A most unusual situation that shows a certain disconnect between intelligence agencies, international police and justice was seen at this time with the request for the arrest by Peru of a terrorist from the Shining Path group: Interpol went looking for
her where he lived, in La Plata, and then they found out that he had died last year.
As
Clarín
published on Tuesday , Interpol Peru transmitted to its Argentine counterpart the international arrest warrant for
Martha Huatay
.
Now, this newspaper has obtained the police documentation provided by a nephew who lives in this country and confirms
death from cardiorespiratory failure.
Huatay, who would be 80 years old in 2023,
had entered the country legally in June 2022
.
He had also left Peru legally.
The documents that certify the death of the terrorist Martha Huatay
By then he had already served a 25-year prison sentence for the judicial process for acts of terrorism against the entire leadership of Sendero, the fearsome organization that terrorized Peru between the eighties and nineties.
In that process, the deceased leader of the group, Abimael Guzmán, had also been tried.
But shortly after, the Public Ministry of Peru opened a new process against her as the ringleader of the brutal attack on Tarata street, in the Miraflores neighborhood of Lima.
Occurring on July 16, 1992, in this attack by the fearsome organization,
25 people died, and 200 were injured.
In principle, the anti-terrorist prosecutor Milko Ruiz requested his preventive detention as leader of Socorro Popular, the arm of Sendero Luminoso that carried out the attack in Miraflores.
This was endorsed by the Prosecutor's Office and then by the Justice, which requested his extradition.
The documents that certify the death of the terrorist Martha Huatay
Sources linked to this open process in Peru and Argentina reported that in the last hours they went to the address in La Plata where Huatay's residence was registered.
And they said that according to her neighbors they had seen her badly and had not seen her for a long time.
Later, they said that it was her nephew who delivered the documentation confirming her death.
As this article shows
Clarín
, the death certificate signed on the silver by the public official Elisabet Ana Montemurro certified the death of Martha Isabel Hatay Ruiz, at the age of 79, at 10:46 a.m. on September 10, 2022. The " cause of death" given by the officer was "Cardiac arrest - Respiratory failure - Heart failure".
The one that was verified by the doctor Gabriela Tiburzi.
Martha Huatay, with other members of the Shining Path terrorist group.
She is the first from the right to the left in the standing line.
The leader of the group, the also deceased Abimael Guzmán, the one in the center, seated, with glasses.
According to the document, she died at 5 corner 602, in La Plata and was cremated at the Parque Iraola Cemetery.
In the documentation, this newspaper also obtained the attention of the SAME province of the municipality of La Plata, in which "obitus" (death) was confirmed.
In Peru, the Huatay case was revived in the midst of social tension and the climate of protest that the unpopular government of Dina Boluarte is going through, who was vice president of the ousted and detained former president Pedro Castillo.
However, this newspaper was able to learn that in Lima the woman was given up for living, living in Argentina.
Located in the famous photo of the Sendero leaders, with Abimael Guzmán in the middle, Huatay, a lawyer by profession, was known in her years of power within the terrorist group as "
Comrade Rosa."
Imprisoned in 1992 for the crime of terrorism, she was released on October 16, 2017, after serving 25 years of her sentence.
Now accused of the attack on Tarata street, the Public Ministry requested life imprisonment against her, while the Judiciary accepted a request for 3.7 million soles (US$ 973,326) for civil compensation for that attack.
Other terrorists from Sendero Luminoso arrived in Argentina, defeated by the government of Alberto Fujimori.
In fact, a month after Huatay entered the country, the former dancer Maritza Garrido-Leca entered.
Now 58 years old, he requested political refuge from CONARE, which has not yet been granted.
Since Huatay had also served a 25-year prison sentence, but his situation was not complicated, sources consulted say.
Born into a family with a good economic position, Garrido-Lecca was arrested in 1992 when the operation was carried out in her house, where she had her dance studio, and at the same time, on the second floor, she had hidden the leader of Sendero, Abimael Guzmán, known by his
nom de guerre
"comrade or president Gonzalo".