97 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
On April 9, the government announced a devastating and definitive blow to terrorism in the country after detaining 24 people who were not carrying out or planning terrorist acts. Indeed, …
NOTE FROM THE FUNDACIÓN HERBERT MOROTE. One of the objectives of the Biblioteca Virtual de la Verdad y la Reconciliación Perú (1980-2000) is to make available to interested parties books …
The book of memory, or the comings and goings of Lurgio Gavilán's life in the maelstrom of violence. Ramón Pajuelo Teves — review of "Memorias de un soldado desconocido. Autobiografía …
A discussion that has not yet been seriously addressed by the authorities, since the capture of the leadership of Sendero Luminoso in 1992, is what to do in light of …
Movadef is Sendero Luminoso. Or more precisely, it is its new "generated organism." Despite the efforts of its documents and spokespeople to draw a distinguishing line, the fact is that …
Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez has had a life that seems drawn from an adventure novel. He recounts it in an autobiography he has just published: Memorias de un soldado desconocido (IEP, …
The former director of the Dircote, Antonio Ketín Vidal, recounted two days ago that neither former president Alberto Fujimori nor his then-right-hand man, Vladimiro Montesinos, knew the day or hour …
On July 16, 1984, more than one hundred people from the peasant community of Soras and its annexes were killed by Sendero Luminoso under the command of Víctor Quispe Palomino. …
Three former ministers, an expert in terrorism, and the head of the Dircote analyze the fight against the subversive remnants operating in complicity with drug trafficking in the Vraem.
Abimael Guzmán, the historical leader of the Maoist guerrilla Sendero Luminoso, marks 20 years in prison, amid the frustrated attempts of his followers to insert themselves into Peru's political life, …
Twenty years after the capture of the so-called "Presidente Gonzalo," all that remains of Sendero Luminoso is a violent appendage in an inaccessible jungle, led by Víctor Quispe Palomino "José," …
His book about Sendero Luminoso and Abimael Guzmán, Profetas del odio, provoked an attack from Movadef. Gonzalo Portocarrero was the target of insults from Shining Path militants for characterizing their …
The trial against the leaders of Sendero Luminoso has included life sentences for Abimael Guzmán and three other leaders, as well as 25-year sentences for the majority. The latter opens …
Much is said about the so-called "Gonzalo thought" and little is known about it. In the process of the failed legal registration of their political movement, the Shining Path members …
On April 3, 1983, a group of Shining Path members entered several hamlets in the high plateau on the way to Lucanamarca and killed 69 people — men, women, and …
This university thesis examines the negotiations between the government of Alberto Fujimori and the leadership of the Partido Comunista del Perú-Sendero Luminoso (PCP-SL) in the context of the 1993 constitutional …
Although an ideological indoctrination school that had been operating inside Canto Grande prison was shut down a few days ago, concern remains among agents of the Directorate of Investigation Against …
Abimael Guzmán, the former leader of Sendero Luminoso (74 years old), has just published his personal memoirs. The publication of this book comes on the seventeenth anniversary of his capture …
The date is unclear, but the event we will recount occurred between the final days of 1991 and the first days of 1992. Abimael Guzmán, "Gonzalo," then clandestine in Lima, …
These are postcards from hell. Celestino Jáuregui survived a machete blow to the head. His wife was found dead while he lay unconscious, also presumed killed. Their baby, just over …
In Ayacucho, the city where Sendero Luminoso launched its first terrorist actions in the 1980s, a group of unknown individuals painted a wall demanding the release of the convicted subversive …
Abimael Guzmán, the founder and supreme leader of Sendero Luminoso captured 17 years ago, wrote a book collecting documents, part of his autobiography, and his legal defense, his attorney Alfredo …
The dogma and megalomania characteristic of Abimael Guzmán are visible even in his love letters. In the missive he dedicates in 1995 to his first wife, Augusta la Torre, or …
The novelty is that the correspondence between Abimael Guzmán and Alberto Fujimori began on June 2, 1993, as read in the book De puño y letra, authored by the Sendero …
The group of Senderista remnants operating in the valley of the Apurímac and Ene rivers (VRAE) is not very different from its sinister historical parent. Like the terrorist band created …
The central theme of this book is the intense class struggle that took place in Peru during the period 1980–2000, and the positions taken by social classes, political parties, the …
These are the memoirs of the imprisoned terrorist leader, Abimael Guzmán Reynoso. This book collects documents that form part of his autobiography. It also contains the manuscripts of the former …
Abimael Guzmán became for the writer Santiago Roncagliolo (Lima, 1975) a literary character far better than any he could have imagined for his novels. He began researching his life for …
Interview with Santiago Roncagliolo on the occasion of the presentation of his book La Cuarta Espada. The image of a pile of dogs hanged from lampposts in Lima is the …
Through this ruling by the Second Transitory Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reinoso is sentenced to life imprisonment for the commission of crimes …
Sendero Luminoso is buzzing with activity. While the imprisoned leadership cooks up a reunion between the Political Solution sponsored by Abimael Guzmán and the supposedly rebel Proseguir faction, the freed …
This text focuses on the political movement Sendero Luminoso (SL), which was formed as a splinter of the Partido Comunista Peruano (PCP), examining its political line, its actions, and the …
Some time ago, here at El Diario Internacional, we noted that if the "Proseguir" group — which for a time opposed capitulation and the "peace letters" — failed to make …
CONVICTING MANUEL RUBÉN ABIMAEL GUZMAN REINOSO of the crime of Terrorism in its form of Aggravated Terrorism to the detriment of the State, as provided for in articles 1, 2, …
Abimael Guzmán Reynoso has been sentenced to spend the rest of his days in prison for aggravated terrorism and aggravated homicide, following a process that lasted a year and was …
Is it possible to understand Sendero Luminoso? In public discourse, Sendero is usually seen as something indefinable, a deranged and irrational group. Others have explained Sendero as the product of …
On October 13, 2006, the National Criminal Court issued a ruling in Consolidated Case No. 560-03. This case involved the trial of several dozen murders and acts of sabotage perpetrated …
This work recounts the history and characterizes the acts perpetrated by Sendero Luminoso in a manner quite different from what most authors had accustomed us to. In the presentation of …
University paper. "In recent decades, society has been the victim of one of the worst scourges: terrorism, which is an expression of violence visible throughout history (conquests, wars) in its …
The prison holding Abimael Guzmán, founder of the bloodthirsty Maoist guerrilla Sendero Luminoso, whose trial began 15 days ago in Peru, was built especially for him and is the most …
In the 1950s, the Peruvian left underwent a process of ideological atomization that divided it into three camps: the Muscovites, the Maoists, and the Trotskyists. That division was fueled by …
The publicity display put on by Abimael Guzmán and his co-defendants during the first hearing of the trial related to the César Vallejo academy left no room for doubt: the …
On Friday the 5th, the trial of Abimael Guzmán and the main leaders of Sendero Luminoso (SL) begins, in connection with the case of the Academia César Vallejo. As may …
Two people who claimed not to know each other, Abimael Guzmán and Víctor Zavala, were very effusive with one another. The latter, a member of the Comité de Socorro Popular …
On November 5, the trial against Abimael Guzmán and the Shining Path leadership is set to begin, after the Tribunal Constitucional (TC) annulled in January 2003 the convictions for crimes …
The book, divided into two parts, offers a counterinsurgency and military forces perspective. The author, Army Colonel Teodoro Hidalgo Morey, details, from his military viewpoint, the origins of the subversive …
The Comisión de la Verdad is finalizing its report while dodging the artillery of an offensive that is just beginning. The Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (CVR) is being …
This book traces the evolution of Sendero Luminoso's political prison work inside the prisons in which they were confined by the Peruvian state. The aim was to assign the prison …
Eighteen years after the massacre that Guzmán's followers perpetrated against the comuneros of Lucanamarca, Guillermo Azpur, journalist for Radio Melody of Ayacucho and correspondent for ideele (radio and magazine), traveled …
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