Julio Salazar

General Julio Ronald Salazar Monroe was a Peruvian military and intelligence officer who was the de jure chief of Peru's National [Intelligence Service (Peru)|National Intelligence Service] during the early 1990s. During Salazar's tenure at the SIN, Vladimiro Montesinos acted as the de facto chief of the SIN and National Security Advisor.
On 8 April 2008, Salazar was sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in the La [Cantuta Massacre], which was carried out by the Grupo Colina death squad. While still serving this sentence at Callao Naval Base, Salazar died on 8 May 2024, at the age of 89, while being treated for various illnesses, including cancer, at the in Lima.