The details about the supposed death in Argentina of Martha Huatay: data offered by her nephew and the management of the Peruvian authorities

Nine months of preventive detention weigh on the released prisoner. (Composition: Infobae / Diffusion)

Martha Huatay worked as a lawyer and acted as the legal arm of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (SL). She also ordered different and bloody attacks during the 80s in Peru.

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“She was the author or participant in the execution of the death of Navy Rear Admiral Alberto Ponce; Rodrigo Franco, director of ENCI; Antonio Rosales —victimized along with two security members and their driver with explosives— president of the Lima Caucho board of directors; of the former minister Orestes Rodríguez (Labor)”, recalled the journalist Umberto Jara.

Martha Huatay Ruiz (comrade ‘Rosa’) was captured on October 20, 1992 —one month after the fall of Abimael Guzmán, the top leader of Sendero Luminoso— after discovering her active role at the top of the group, sentenced to 25 years from prison and finally released in 2017.

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However, the Prosecutor’s Office began a new investigation against him after collecting the statements of Óscar Ramírez Durand: alias comrade ‘Feliciano’.

Huatay Ruiz was captured on October 20, 1992, just one month after the fall of the leader of Sendero Luminoso: Abimael Guzmán. (ANDEAN)

The former leader of Sendero Luminoso pointed out that Huatay, in her position as secretary in Socorro Popular (legal arm of the genocidal group), “transmitted” the plan for the attack on Tarata Street (1992) —a road located in the Lima district of Miraflores— where a ‘car bomb’ exploded that left 25 dead, 155 injured and economic losses of more than three million soles.

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According to the prosecutor’s thesis, ‘Rosa’ received an order from the Central Committee of Sendero Luminoso to carry out the aforementioned attack. Despite the initiation of the proceedings of the Public Ministry, Huatay Ruiz left the country in June 2022, the Foreign Ministry reported months ago, heading to Argentina.

In the midst of her disappearance, on April 3, the Judiciary ordered her international capture, by Interpol, and declared the prosecutor’s request to file nine months of preventive detention against the hiker well founded.

His appearance in court may not take place due to his alleged death in Argentina.

The spokesman for the National Police also stated that the information must be “verified.” (PRP)

It was Martha Huatay’s nephew who appeared to declare the death of the woman released for terrorism. The hiker died in September of last year, in the Argentine province of La Plata, sources in the case told Infobae.

It was also known that after the situation was reported to the Federal Police, the corresponding document was sent to Interpol Lima.

The cause of death responds to a “Cardiac arrest – Respiratory failure – Heart failure”, confirmed PNP General Óscar Arriola.

“This information was already available, this deserves to be verified, while the activities carried out by the elements of Sendero Luminoso need to be verified,” he told RPP.

From left to right, the PNP spokesman, José Arriola; and the head of the Dircote, José Zavala, both generals of the National Police. (Composition: Infobae/GEC)

In addition, it maintained that there is “documentation that [Marhta Huatay] (…) would have been cremated”, however, he reiterated that this has not yet been confirmed by the Peruvian authorities.

The same position was communicated, previously, by the head of the Directorate against terrorism (Dircote), José Zavala.

The police official affirmed that “it cannot be affirmed” that comrade “Rosa” has died, since “all the necessary steps are still being carried out by the Argentine Police, in order to establish the veracity of the documentation presented, and if indeed that event has occurred.”

Anti-corruption attorney Milko Ruiz requested information through the Foreign Ministry. (A Peruvian man)

In Peru, the corresponding proceedings have already begun to verify or rule out the alleged death of Huatay Ruiz.

The exact date on which Peru was informed about this fact is unknown, however, last Friday the 14th it was revealed that the Foreign Ministry sent a request for information, regarding this case, to the Peruvian embassy in Argentina; according to El Comercio.

The letter was extended, initially, from the Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office to the aforementioned ministry. The development of the same was in charge of the attorney Milko Ruiz.

“Due to the criminal proceedings followed against Martha Isabel Huatay Ruiz, for the crime of terrorism to the detriment of the State (…) we request that you kindly coordinate with the Consulate of the Argentine Republic and inform this office of the following: If has registered the death of the citizen (…) in the Republic of Argentina, according to the journalistic information detailed by the Infobae chain. If this is the case, send a certified copy of the documents that support said registration,” the text reads.

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