Elena Albertina Iparraguirre Revoredo (born 14 September 1947), also known as Comrade Míriam, is a high-ranking member of the

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vian Maoist revolutionary party

Sendero Luminoso The Shining Path ( es, Sendero Luminoso), officially the Communist Party of Peru (, abbr. PCP), is a communist guerrilla group in Peru following Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Gonzalo Thought. Academics often refer to the group as the Commu ...

(Shining Path). Iparraguirre, a major female figure in the Shining Path, became the second-in-command, as well as Abimael Guzmán's lover and wife after first wife Augusta la Torre's death in 1988. Iparraguirre was captured in Lima in 1992 along with her partner, Shining Path founder Abimael Guzmán. In 1992, she received a sentence of life imprisonment by a secret military tribunal. She was awarded a new trial in a civilian court in 2004, but the proceeding ended as a mistrial. After a third trial in 2006, both Iparraguirre and Guzmán again received life sentences. In 2010, Iparraguirre and Guzmán were married.

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