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Life Sentence for 'Artemio', the Last Shining Path Leader to Be Captured
Last Wednesday, June 5, in his statement before a tribunal scheduled the reading of the sentence, the last member of the Central Committee of the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso, Florindo …
Shining Path After Guzmán
Twenty years after the capture of the so-called "Presidente Gonzalo," all that remains of Sendero Luminoso is a violent appendage in an inaccessible jungle, led by Víctor Quispe Palomino "José," …
Abimael Had Told His Followers That It Was Time to Seize Power
The date is unclear, but the event we will recount occurred between the final days of 1991 and the first days of 1992. Abimael Guzmán, "Gonzalo," then clandestine in Lima, …
War Forewarned
The assault on Uchiza, on May 28th, carried out by a Sendero column of approximately 50 people — including three women — had been flagged months earlier by intelligence reports …
Hunting Shining Path
Three thousand troops, helicopters, surveillance posts, and military control in nearly every town in the Ene valley. CARETAS was there and witnessed the tension gripping this zone, which at the …
The Army Launches Against Shining Path
Four hundred soldiers and intelligence agents joined the pursuit in Peru today of the column of the guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso that on Saturday killed nine soldiers in the central …
A Meadow Going Dark
The spark ignited by Sendero 19 years ago seems to be extinguished with the capture of "Feliciano." Without political leadership, the Sendero organization is beginning to crumble, and despite "Feliciano's" …
Surprise and Grief in Uchiza
The times of terror and bloodshed seemed to be a thing of the past in Uchiza, a town now more concerned with its precarious economic situation. But the armed incursion …
End of the Path?
For a long time, the magnitude and severity that political violence had reached made it one of the central topics of any assessment of the country. Despite the fact that …