Peruvian Rebel Offers Grim Prophecy Shining Path Leader, in Rare Interview
Abimael Guzmán, the shadowy leader of Peru's Shining Path guerrillas, 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 discussed his group's violent ideology and its repercussions on fragile democratic institutions. He said Peru is headed for wholesale conflict marked by armed uprisings among workers and the dispossessed.