THE PERUVIAN PEOPLE WHISPER FOR FEAR OF THE '1,000 EYES'
In a discreet café near the main square, a professor from the University of Huamanga whispers: "Don't mention my name, not even my department. If you appear to know too much in Ayacucho, you become a subversive suspect for the Police or a potential informant for Sendero Luminoso. There are a thousand eyes watching you." Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) is a small Maoist faction that, after two years of escalating violence, has drawn in the army. Its tactics, combining twentieth-century ideology, arcane Inca methods, and latent discontent, forced the Government's hand.