Every year, on the same day, they gather to celebrate, but above all to recall their great contribution, without compensation, to the rescue of democracy in Peru, as they claim. They are retired policemen of various ranks, members of GEIN, the special intelligence unit set up within the National Anti-Terrorist Directorate, the notorious DINCOTE. They started in the early 1990s under the presidency of the social democrat Garcia and continued during the years of the fascist Fuhimori. Operation Victoria. Eighty-six carefully selected police officers, led by Captain Benedicto Jimenez, went on the hunt for the leadership of the illegal Communist Party of Peru after being recruited, trained and equipped with advanced technology hardware by the US Embassy in Lima and the CIA.
