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Insurgent activity was in decline by the end of 1992, and Fujimori took credit for this development, claiming that his campaign had largely eliminated the insurgent threat.

After the 1992 auto-coup, the intelligence work of the DINCOTE ( National Counter-Terrorism Directorate ) led to the capture of the leaders from Shining Path and MRTA, including notorious Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán.

Guzmán's capture was a political coup for Fujimori, who used it to great effect in the press ; in an interview with documentarian Ellen Perry, Fujimori even notes that he specially ordered Guzmán's prison jumpsuit to be white with black stripes, to enhance the image of his capture in the media.