Guzmán Is Not the Thinker He Imagines Himself to Be
His book about Sendero Luminoso and Abimael Guzmán, Profetas del odio, provoked an attack from Movadef. Gonzalo Portocarrero was the target of insults from Shining Path militants for characterizing their leader as a "sorcerer's apprentice" and as a charlatan willing to trade his militants for better prison conditions. This is his view on the fall of Shining Path.