Security & Strategic Review - July 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)

PERU | New SL ‘front’ confirmed. The redeployment of elements of Sendero Luminoso (SL) into the jungle areas of Cusco is no longer conjecture, according to intelligence intercepts reported by the newspaper La República. Actions involving a group led by Martín Quispe Palomino (‘Camarada Gabriel’) in the area had been reported last month [SSR-12-06]. Now intercepts of radio conversations have placed Orlando Borda Casafranca (‘Camarada Alipio’) in Vilcabamba, in the province of La Convención, as well as his deputy, known as ‘Camarada Omar’, and three other known SL fighters. ‘Alipio’ is considered second only to Víctor Quispe Palomino, who leads the SL forces in the Valley of the Apurímac and Ene Rivers (Vrae), as well as the principal ‘military’ leader of that group.

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