ABIMAEL GUZMÁN AND VLADIMIRO MONTESINOS: DEMOCRACY, ENEMY!
With the fall of the authoritarian regime, the historical cycle that began with Sendero Luminoso's violence in the early 1980s closes in Peru. The following text reflects on how Peru's fragile democracy succumbed to the combined action of those who wanted to "destroy the bourgeois State" and those who claimed to "defend Western values."