Overview
- An INPE-linked record circulating online lists Alfonso López Chau as detained on March 3, 1970 in El Sexto for “asalto y robo,” with Peru21 reporting its contents after the document was posted by José Barba Caballero.
- López Chau stated on X that the detention was strictly political during the Velasco era and said he was later granted amnesty, arguing it created no judicial or criminal record.
- He published a Judicial Branch registry note indicating no final, enforceable conviction is recorded in his name.
- In a newly highlighted interview with LaMula.pe, he said police first mistook his group for thieves before identifying them as student activists, which he says escalated the case.
- Ex-congressman Edgar Villanueva urged clarification, saying López Chau spent time in at least one other prison, while media also revisit a 1989 piece in which López Chau referred to MRTA leader Víctor Polay as a “luchador.”