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Sendero Luminoso and the Peasantry of Andahuaylas

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 1986
Since 1980 the maoist party known as Sendero Luminoso, the “Shining Path,” has been waging a guerrilla campaign against the civilian government of Peru. To the surprise of most observers, this group not only has survived but has expanded its scope of operations, kept the military on the defensive, and attracted a small but significant national ...
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Land Reform and the Rise of Sendero Luminoso in Peru

Terrorism and Political Violence, 1989
The rise of Sendero Luminoso as an insurgent organization in Peru has posed a significant puzzle to students of Third World revolutions: Sendero seemed to gain strength in the aftermath of a sweeping land reform program whereas analysts have traditionally viewed land reform as a means of pre‐empting revolution by co‐opting the base of popular support ...
T David Mason
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Sendero Luminoso and Peruvian counterinsurgency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Sendero Luminoso first appeared in Peru in May 1980 by burning several ballot boxes and hanging dogs from streetlights. This unusual event signaled the beginning of one of the most violent insurgencies in the Western hemisphere.
Switzer, Russell W   +2 more
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Sendero Luminoso and the Future of Peruvian Democracy

Third World Quarterly, 1990
Sandra Woy‐Hazleton   +1 more
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Gonzalo Portocarrero, Profetas del odio. Raíces culturales y líderes de Sendero Luminoso, Lima, Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012, 258 p.

open access: yesNuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos, 2012
Los análisis del surgimiento y desarrollo de Sendero Luminoso (SL) han tenido siempre que afrontar duras críticas fuera del mundo académico peruano. Estas opiniones negativas son una de las tantas expresiones de las dificultades que existen en el Perú ...
Daniel Iglesias
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Sendero Luminoso in Peru: terror is revolution

Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, 2023
The Soviet-Chinese rift in the international communist movement in the 1960s led to the emergence of Maoist communist parties in almost every country in the world, most of which broke away from the communist parties. In a number of places Maoism gained more support than Moscow-backed parties, notably in Peru, where the Maoist movement demonstrated mass
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Sendero Luminoso and the Guerrilla Challenge

1992
By the time Alan Garcia took office in 1985, Sendero Luminoso’s war against Peru’s political establishment — ‘the old reactionary Peruvian state’ as Sendero would call it — was already five years old. Indeed, Sendero had existed as a political grouping since 1970.
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