Errors in the Fight Against Shining Path Are Decimating Peru's Government
Peru's Defense and Interior ministers, Luis Otárola and Daniel Lozada, respectively, submitted their irrevocable resignations on Thursday amid opposition pressure in Parliament to vote that same day on a motion of censure "for their proven incompetence" in their respective portfolios: in the last month ten police officers and soldiers have been killed by the narco-guerrilla Sendero Luminoso, and around thirty were wounded.