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February 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The office of the Peruvian president’s press secretary released a statement on Monday saying that the country’s security forces arrested the top rebel leader on Sunday after finding him lying wounded in a hut near the Misholla River in Tocache province of the San Martin region.
Artemio, whose real name is Florindo Eleuterio Flores, was airlifted later that day to a military hospital in Lima to receive treatment for his injuries.
Defense Minister Alberto Otarola said on Friday that Artemio was wounded early Thursday in a firefight with government forces 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.
Other sources, however, claim that Artemio was shot by his own bodyguards.
Otarola said Artemio had “practically lost his right arm” when he was wounded.
President Ollanta Humala flew to the Upper Huallaga Valley to congratulate the police and soldiers on their capture of the notorious rebel chief.
Artemio’s capture is a significant blow to the roughly 150-strong band that represents about half of what remains of the Shining Path.
The group began trafficking in cocaine after the founders of the Maoist rebels were imprisoned during a bloody war against the state in the 1990s.
President Humala, a former army lieutenant colonel who fought against the Shining Path in the 1990s, has vowed to step up efforts to crush another faction of the group, which is also involved in the drug trade further south in the valley of the Apurimac and Ene rivers.
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