Jaime Castillo Petruzzi

Who is Jaime Castillo Petruzzi?

Jaime Castillo Petruzzi, known as El Toro, is a Chilean terrorist and financier who worked with the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement during the internal conflict in Peru.

Along with a few others, he conformed a group of Chileans who carried out special operations for the terrorist organization. Petruzzi kidnapped many prominent businessmen during this period, who were kept in cárceles del pueblo and usually exchanged for money to buy modern weaponry and equipment.

He was known as a lunatic, who killed businessperson David Ballón Vera and also shot dead one of his brothers in arms for losing his nerves during the kidnapping of Pedro Miyasato Miyasato.

Petruzzi was detained in 1993 and sentenced to life in prison for betrayal in the high-security Yanamayo prison in Puno, Peru.