Hello and welcome to the witness podcast with me Mike Lanchen and today we go back to

September of 1992 when the security forces in Peru captured Abimael Guzman, leader of the

Maoist guerrilla group,

Centero Luminoso, or Shining Path.

His arrest was the culmination of years of tracking

by the police and security forces.

I've been hearing from the two police officers who

caught the man considered to be Peru's public enemy number one. It's September 1992 in Lima, Peru, and the police are staking out what looks like an ordinary house in an upper-class neighborhood of the

capital but which they suspect could be a secret rebel hideout.

Other things have said segment to track the people who

is living in this case, and I say a lolo.

My job was surveillance to track the people who lived in the house.

A man we'd nicknamed Lolo and the woman we'd called Lola.

We had to constantly change who was following who, and even change our clothes or put on disguises,

so they wouldn't realize they were being followed.

We have the last terrorist we have

to cancel the three-quarter the mania.

We had to wait until the last terrorist came back to the house and went to sleep,

even if it was three or four in the morning and the next morning we

had to be back there again at six. It must have been quite exhausting and boring at

times. Yes it was boring and tedious, but we had to get through it because we knew we were very close.

Anna Cecilia Garzon, alias Gaviota, the seagull, and Julio Bessera

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