LIMA – The most important leader of Peru’s left-wing Shining Path insurgency has been seriously wounded and captured by security forces after being shot in a remote jungle, according to President Ollanta Humala.
This is his first major victory against what remains of the rebel group. Artemio, the nom de guerre of Florindo Eleuterio Flores, heads a group of guerrillas that went into the cocaine trade after the founders of the Maoist rebels were imprisoned in the 1990s.
Peru is the world’s top grower of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. – (Reuters)