Expanded Central Committee of the PCP-SL
Meeting of the Enlarged Central Committee of the PCP-SL where Abimael Guzmán was accused of deviating from Maoism for proposing to move the war from the countryside to the city. Guzman defended his position by arguing that the city should be a necessary complement to the countryside as the main theater of operations.
Meeting of the Enlarged Central Committee of the PCP-SL held between August 8 and 24, 1980, where Abimael Guzman was accused of deviating from Maoism. His proposal to move the theater of war from the countryside to the city was labeled 'hoxhist', an accusation crucially unfavorable to his leadership. Guzman defended himself by pointing out that the distribution in quantity and quality of the attacks did not empower the city at the expense of the countryside, but that the media gave greater repercussion to the attacks in the city. He argued that the strategy was defined as 'a specification of the people's war in Peru, making the countryside the main theater of the actions and the cities a necessary complement'.