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 | | It is thought that Saenz, nicknamed “Gringo,” was part of the Shining Path death squad that gunned down Maria Elena Moyano, known as “Mother Courage,” at a fundraising event in Villa El Salvador. |
 | | The community leader was slain in front of her two youngest children and her body was dynamited at the orders of Abimael Guzman, then Shining Path’s top leader, because she had opposed his guerrilla group’s attempt to take over grassroots organizations in the Villa El Salvador district. |
 | | In Oct. 2000, Peruvian authorities arrested Jenny Romero Coro, alias “Comrade Lucero,” who belonged to the group that killed “Mother Courage.” Moyano, who organized soup kitchens, community clinics and economic development programs and later served as mayor of Villa El Salvador, was honored in 1987 with Spain’s Asturias Prize. |
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