Security & Strategic Review - March 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)

A major combined operation in the Vizcatán area of the VRAEM led to the seizure of several camps of the Sendero Luminoso (SL) unit led by the Quispe Palomino clan, including what appears to have been the group’s logistical hub. It did not, however, succeed in capturing or killing the group’s third-ranking leader, who had been based there when the operation began.