The World - News from May 14, 1986
“Comrade Betty,” a key leader of Peru’s Maoist group Sendero Luminoso, has been arrested, the Lima newspaper La Republica reported. It said that “Comrade Betty,” identified as Beatriz Sarimento Ramos, 23, was seized by police and soldiers in a working-class district of nearby San Martin. The paper said she was in charge of the group’s indoctrination schools in the Peruvian capital. Police spokesmen declined to confirm the report of Sarimento’s capture.
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