Known by the alias Comrade “Nicholas” or “Remigio” is one of the members of the leadership of Shining Path, a Maoist insurgency that started the internal armed conflict in Peru in 1980, using as a primary method of action on terrorism. At some point in his career he became the number two of the organization. He studied anthropology at the University of San Cristobal de Huamanga, which was reopened in 1959 after nearly 80 years of being closed. There he met Abimael Guzman, who was a professor of philosophy, under whose influence he embraced Maoism as a political ideology. In 1969 he graduated with the thesis “The class struggle in the highlands of Huanta”. In the early 1970s he was arrested in Huamanga and then transferred to Lurigancho prison in Lima, where he was held for six months. In 1978 he went into hiding two years before the start of the Shining Path armed struggle, in which he appeared as one of its most important leaders. Initially, he performed in the department of Huancavelica, where he commanded bomb attacks against public and private entities and ordered the killing of dozens of local authorities. In 1984 he moved to the northern highlands, where he applied the same terrorist methods. Already recognized as a bloody Shining Path leader, the government put a price on his head through advertisements broadcast on television and in the press that facilitated their identification and capture on 11 June 1988. He was tried on charges of terrorism and murder , and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In March 1992, he appealed to the Supreme Court of Peru, and his sentence was reduced to 15 years. The same year, the regime of President Alberto Fujimori opened a new trial and Morote Barrionuevo was sentenced to life in prison. A new trial was started in June 2003, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, minus their years after forcible detention since 1988. Although he should go free in June 2013, continues in prison for having outstanding new trials, one of them for their responsibility in the killing of more than 100 farmers in the district of Soras, Ayacucho, which occurred on 16 July 1984.
Link to Wikipedia biography (Spanish)