Peru's Shining Path Guerrilla Leader Captured

In a rare interview last December, Artemio said he had offered the government a truce but got no response [Reuters]

Peru: Shining Path Guerrilla Leader Captured, Badly Wounded -- Washington Post/AP

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian troops captured on Sunday the wounded leader of a remnant of the once-powerful Shining Path rebel group, effectively dismantling a well-armed outlaw band that lived off the cocaine trade, President Ollanta Humala said.

Humala, a former army lieutenant colonel, flew to the remote coca-growing Upper Huallaga Valley of central Peru to congratulate the police and soldiers who had snared the 50-year-old rebel, Comrade Artemio, and two of his confederates.

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