PERUVIAN REBEL OFFERS GRIM PROPHECIES: SHINING PATH LEADER IN A RARE INTERVIEW
Abimael Guzmán, the shadowy leader of the Peruvian guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso, has broken a 10-year public silence to deliver a chillingly detailed vision of revolutionary change for this battered South American country. In a lengthy interview published last month by a Lima newspaper, the elusive chief of Latin America's most fanatical insurgency discusses his group's violent ideology and its repercussions on fragile democratic institutions. He states that Peru is heading toward major conflict, marked by armed uprisings among workers and the dispossessed.