Alberto Gálvez Olaechea
Peruvian writer and former MRTA member
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Alberto Gálvez Olaechea (born c. 1955)[1][2] is a Peruvian journalist, columnist, writer, editor, and former member of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA).
Biography
Gálvez had originally been part of Voz Rebelde, a splinter of the Revolutionary Left Movement, during the 1970s. After the MRTA's formation, he served as a member its "National Directorate"[3] and as a writer for its newsletter, Semanario Cambio.[4] He was detained by DIRCOTE in 1987,[4] escaping from Castro Castro Prison alongside Víctor Polay Campos in 1990.[5] In 1991, he was detained by Special Intelligence Group as part of an operation (codenamed Fortuna),[6] which sought to identify the prison's escapees. He renounced his MRTA membership in 1992,[2] and was eventually released from prison in 2014.[7]
In 2015, he published a memoir, Con la palabra desarmada, and later wrote for Jacobin, an American socialist magazine that published another book of his, Entre Guerras: Militancia y activismo minero en las décadas 1970 y 1980.[8]
In 2016, he was part of a controversy when Marisa Glave, then congresswoman of the Broad Front, was present at the presentation of the second edition of Ojo Zurdo, for which Gálvez wrote an article.[9]
In 2023, he was investigated along with other MRTA leaders for indirect perpetration and human rights violations in the Tarapoto massacre.[10]