The director of the Directorate Against Terrorism (Dircote), General José Zavala, gave details of the investigation carried out on the alleged links between the mobilizations that took place in Ayacucho and the Shining Path.
The Ayacucho Regional Committee was investigated after the capture of the president of the Ayacucho People’s Defense Front (Fredepa), Rocío Leandro Melgar, alias ‘Comrade Cusi’, for an alleged link with the mobilizations that took place on the 15th and 16th December 2022.
Zavala reported that documentation and conversations were found, as well as the organizational chart that would demonstrate Leandro Melgar’s connection to the terrorist organization.
He referred that this The regional committee responds to the directives given by the Historical Central Committee of Sendero Luminosothrough Elena Iparraguirre, alias ‘Comrade Miriam’, widow of the late genocidal Abimael Guzmán Reynoso.
“The military command, Miss Estéfani Jazmin Alaya Chumbes, who is the one who executes all the provisions that emanate from the central committee and who, through the political command, have it executed, the military command, but from the front is Rocío Leandro Melgar, who is president of FREDEPA, created as we have already stated, from the 1960s and 1970s by Guzmán himself, and which is registered in documents written by Guzmán and which serves as a guide for the further development of his so-called people’s warZavala explained.
Some detainees are also involved in this investigation, including Clido Canales Tanteleán (never found), Piero Giles Gamboa, Julisa Gómez Ayala and Fernando Cuba Quinto. Finally, Zavala showed documentation that supports what was indicated.
