Camarada Vilma

Florabel Vargas Figueroa, also known as Comrade Vilma, is a Peruvian former member of the Shining Path and current spokeswoman of the Militarized Communist Party of Peru (MPCP), serving as the group's fourth-in-command.

Biography Vargas was born in Chuschi. She was kidnapped along her parents and sister María by Shining Path members, who abducted the sisters after killing their parents. After Abimael Guzmán's capture in 1992, she assisted in the group's reorganisation. Within the group, she was in charge of its children, called the "young pioneers". Following the death of Jorge Quispe Palomino in 2021, Vargas became the group's fourth-in-command and official spokeswoman.

In 2020, a column headed by Vargas ambushed military units in the VRAEM region, killing an officer, a police sub-officer, and an army captain.

In 2021, Vargas called on people to boycott that year's general elections. After Pedro Castillo was elected president, she threatened to kill both him and then Prime Minister Guido Bellido if they threatened the group's coca production operation instead of supporting it.

During the social protests of 2023, she—alongside Comrade Olga—called for Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping's assistance to overthrow president Dina Boluarte, while calling the ousted Castillo a traitor.

On September 30, 2023, her son Marco ("Gabrielito") and his partner Alexi Berrocal ("Comrade Rafael") were captured alongside weapons and munitions.