The Ballerina Who Sheltered South America’s Most Wanted Terrorist

Abimael Guzman, leader of Peru’s Shining Path guerilla movement, was hiding in the second floor apartment of Maritza Garrido Lecca’s dance studio when he was arrested in 1992. Nicholas Shakespeare, whose novel The Dancer Upstairs is about Guzman’s capture, visits Garrido Lecca in prison to compare the actual Maritza to the one he imagined.