Dancer who hid Peru rebel chief freed from prison after 25 years
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 / 10:29 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Guadalupe Pardo, Marco Aquino
LIMA (Reuters) - A ballet dancer in Peru who was caught hiding the leader of the Shining Path in her apartment in 1992 was freed from prison after finishing her 25-year sentence on Monday.
Maritza Garrido Lecca, 52, emerged from a prison on the dusty outskirts of Lima smiling. As she stepped in a car, journalists shouted: “Do you regret it?”
Garrido Lecca is the latest in a wave of former militants to be freed, and their release has stirred fears of unrest.
Raised in an affluent Catholic home in Peru’s capital Lima, Garrido Lecca stunned Peru when authorities discovered the country’s most wanted man, Abimael Guzman, had been secretly living in the second story of her apartment above the studio where she taught ballet and modern dance.
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