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Peru After 15 Years of Violence (1980–1995)
In mid-1992, thousands of Peruvian men and women were seeking at the embassies of numerous countries a saving passport to flee; many left due to lack of work and fear, and speculation even arose about a Sendero Luminoso victory that would have meant the disappearance of Peru as a Nation. Based on a North American source, the magazine Caretas published a map with large arrows marking the route of an invasion by neighboring countries (Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador). With remarkable triumphalism, Sendero Luminoso announced that its war had reached a stage of "strategic equilibrium," that it consequently had serious possibilities of winning, and that it would take power in two to four more years.