Peruvian Former Guerrilla Chief Abimael Guzman’s Condition Is Serious

Lima, Jun 24 (Prensa Latina) The jailed former head of the armed group Sendero Luminoso, Abimael Guzman, suffers from a serious heart disease, so he needs to be treated in hospital,
 the Sendero Luminoso leader, captured in 1992, has been under rigid confinement for 21 years in a high security prison located at the naval base of the neighboring port of Callao, in conditions of confinement that he described as torture. He said the heart disease suffered by Guzman , 79, has joined hypertension and chronic psoriasis, and that he has never been taken to a hospital since his capture.