The capture of Iván Quispe Palomino brought with it a series of statements by the Government of Dina Boluarte which have been denied by various experts in the field. In the morning, the Minister of the Interior, Juan José Santiváñez, loudly announced the arrest of one “of the most important leaders of the Shining Path” during an identity control operation in the district of San Juan de Lurigancho; However, this is an exonerated terrorist who has been a collaborator of the Directorate against Terrorism (Dircote).
The Republic contacted Jaime Antezana, an expert on issues of terrorism and drug trafficking, who confirmed to us that Minister Juan José Santiváñez is lying to the country because Iván Quispe Palomino is neither number 1 nor number 2 of Sendero Luminoso. Along the same lines, he also condemned the fact that the Government disseminates information about the requirements of Iván, who currently does not have any of it because he was a collaborator.
—Who is Iván Quispe Palomino and what was his role during the 90s?
—Iván Quispe Palomino is the brother of Víctor Quispe Palomino, alias José, who heads an armed drug organization from Vizcatán, in Vraem. The other two brothers who were part of the clan have died: Gabriel in August 2013 and Raúl in January 2020.
What is your role? I have spoken with direct sources and their relatives. A few months before 1999, he surrendered along with Raúl Víctor Quispe Palomino, Melania Quispe Palomino and other men surrendered to the forces of order, by doing so they became collaborators of the Dircote and the National Intelligence Service (SIN); That is, they placed themselves under the orders of General EP Eduardo Fournier to capture Óscar Alberto Ramírez Durand, alias Comrade ‘Feliciano’. The role of Iván and his brothers was to collaborate with the FF. AA. and the Dircotewhose objective was to capture him and they achieved it. From this, he becomes a collaborator of Dircote.
—The Ministry of the Interior reported that it had 3 requests. Is what they have spread true?
If they are wallpapering it now it has no name. He has had several very quick arrests due to his homonymy with Víctor Quispe Palomino because his middle name is Iván and among his aliases he adopted his middle name, but in the end he stayed as ‘José’.
Iván is an old acquaintance of anti-terrorist intelligence from the late 90s and early 90s. That should be fairly clear. He collaborated and did not return to Vizcatán like Raúl did, after Feliciano’s capture in July 1999. How can you have a requirement if you are collaborating? Because of the collaboration that was so important for pacification, he was exonerated, it no longer makes sense.
He is a person who since ’99 has had no relationship with the Quispe Palomino clan, in which Vraemnor with Sendero Luminoso. It’s been 25 years.
—If Iván Quispe Palomino has distanced himself from his brother Víctor Quispe Palomino and his faction, why is Dina Boluarte’s Government handling it as a coup against terrorism?
—He is a very rude psychosocial of the Government of Dina Boluarte because they are lying, they are breaking the truth and those of the Dircote know that, they know Iván, here are the collaborators who fled from the row of ‘José ‘ They say that he has been collaborating since 2010 or 2011, from there they already saw Iván. In Lima, a part of deserters live and now they collaborate with Dircote from 2012 to date.
You cannot present a collaborator as a terrorist, much less as number 2. How is Sendero going to be number 2, if he is no longer linked to this, number 1 and 2 They were captured by Dircote in November of last yearwhen the son of comrade ‘José’, Víctor Zúñiga, falls. The 2nd was Gabriel’s son who was also captured. They are inventing the number 2 when that man has nothing to do with everything that has happened.
I have consulted with a relative of his and they have told me that he has been working normally in construction. It has nothing to do with what the brothers started, he moved away just like Melania. When the Peruvian State turns you into that, it is because it forgives you for everything you have done previously.
Dircote structure shows that Iván Quispe Palomino does not belong to a drug trafficking organization
According to the structure that the Directorate against Terrorism designed and that the expert Jaime Antezana shared with La República, it shows that Iván Quispe Palomino is not part of the terrorist clan led by his brother and that what was said by Juan José Santiváñez and Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén is false.
In this organizational chart from November 2023; That is to say, prior to the capture of the son of comrade ‘José’, Víctor Quispe Zúñiga, it can be verified that he is not the second nor does he belong to this one. “It is the most compelling evidence,” Antezana concluded.
