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11 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
In his book Profetas del odio, Peruvian sociologist Gonzalo Portocarrero argues that the leader of Sendero Luminoso had a "tendency to deify himself" and was "indifferent to others' lives." The …
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," …
Book that seeks to highlight the figure of the imprisoned terrorist leader Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, and vindicates his role as a "social fighter" and "revolutionary." A text that allows one …
On Sunday, April 3, 1983, death came to Lucanamarca. Most of the inhabitants of that district in the central Andean region of Ayacucho lost a father, wife or husband, brother …
This week agenciaperu.com visited Castro Castro prison and discovered that the Senderistas held there continue to revere the 'Gonzalo' thought. On this and more, one of them spoke to us …
On September 12, 1992, Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, the supreme leader of the most bloodthirsty subversive group the country has ever seen, was captured. Now that calm has returned, the time …
Like other Latin American cases, Peru has experienced over the past twenty-five years a series of traumatic events that exacerbated its longstanding problems, and whose consequences continue to haunt individual …
President Alberto Fujimori obtained on Saturday night (Peruvian time) the success he most coveted: the capture of Abimael Guzmán, the leader of Sendero Luminoso, a terrorist group of Maoist ideology …
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