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    Peru says rebel leader may be wounded

    By FRANKLIN BRICENO | Associated Press – Fri, Feb 10, 2012

    LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's defense minister said Friday that one of two remaining fugitive leaders of the once-powerful Shining Path rebel group may have been wounded in combat with government forces in a remote coca-growing region.

    Alberto Otarola told reporters that authorities are not ruling out that the rebel known as Comrade Artemio "may have been fatally wounded." He said police and soldiers were searching for him.

    The firefight occurred early Thursday in the village of Puerto Pizana in the Upper Huallaga Valley, a major cocaine-producing region where the Shining Path is involved in the drug trade, said Otarola.

    He offered no further details and refused to take questions from journalists in a brief media appearance.

    The police commander in the region, Gen. Vicente Romero, told The Associated Press that his men were seeking the guerrilla chief on Friday.

    Comrade Artemio, 50, commands about 150 rebels. His real name is Florindo "Jose" Flores and the United States has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.

    Flores told journalists in December who visited him in a jungle encampment that he considered his cause lost and was seeking a truce.

    The self-described Marxist said he wrote President Ollanta Humala twice but received no response.

    He told the journalists that the only way to change the capitalist system was through a socialist government "but at this moment that is not possible."

    Peru's government has refused to negotiate with Comrade Artemio, whose group is a tiny remnant of the fanatical insurgency that killed thousands during the 1980s and 1990s.

    Peru is the world's No. 2 producer after Colombia of coca, the basis for cocaine.

     

    3 comments

    • carlosrq
      carlosrq  •  Lima, Peru  •  3 mths ago
      he is not a rebel leader, or a guerrilla leader, he is a terrorist and a murderer....get your facts right, do not confuse readers
      • elbarto
        elbarto 3 mths ago
        The only good communist is a dead communist.
      • Casa
        Casa 3 mths ago
        He is a man who believes in something. He is doing something for his people, unlike you, sitting on Yahoo pointing fingers. He is a good man.
      • carlosrq
        carlosrq 3 mths ago
        really? and what are you doing sitting on yahoo also, but in california? at least i am in peru....and a good man kills people?
    • Luis Acosta
      Luis Acosta  •  3 mths ago
      the rebel leader, y only another communist rat , that looking to murderer people of the beutiful country of peru...and more.
    • Casa
      Casa  •  3 mths ago
      Who knew there even was a Peruvian rebel leader? Keeeewwwl!!!!! Love rebel dudes, especially indigenous rebel dudes.
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