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Sendero Luminoso and the Threat of Narcoterrorism
1990Sendero Luminoso or the Shining Path ranks among the most elusive, secretive, and brutal guerrilla organizations in the world. Once a radical uprising limited to the Andean highlands of Ayacucho, it is now a movement of national proportions that has woven itself into the fabric of Peruvian society.
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The Rise and Development of Sendero Luminoso in Peru
1992Abstract : Sendero Luminoso, or as it is more commonly known, the Shining Path, strikes a chord of fear in the hearts of the Peruvian people. To Sendero's supporters they are freedom fighters, but to the world community they are fanatic insurgents. Since 1980, Sendero Luminoso, under the leadership of Abimael Guzman, has used random acts of violence in
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Peru's Sendero Luminoso: The Shining Path Beckons
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1995A security threat confronts the West from the world's gray areas—regions where control is shifting to half-political, half-criminal transnational powers, such as Peru's Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). Sendero Luminoso's vision, organization, and action program provide a new Marxist-Leninist-Maoist model for reforming political actors operating in ...
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Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) and the Conflict in Peru
2011In this chapter, Mealy and Austad detail the origins and evolution of the ethnocultural conflict in Peru which continues today. Identification of the involved groups is traced to the caste system formed following Spanish conquest that is based on quantity of European versus indigenous heritage.
Marisa Mealy, Carol Shaw Austad
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Ideology in Context: Explaining Sendero Luminoso's Tactical Escalation
Journal of Peace Research, 2001Abstract This article explains tactical escalation by a Peruvian left-wing group during the 1980s and 1990s as an interaction effect between organizational ideology and the broader political and organizational environment. In 1980, Peru's Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) organization ended a decade of political organizing and launched ...
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Terror in the Highlands: Communicative Violence and Sendero Luminoso
2018My dissertation focuses on a subset of non-lethal violence, particularly the maiming and lasting scars of what I term “communicative violence.” I define communicative violence as non-lethal violence that leaves physical and visible marks with lasting legacy effects (i.e., scars or physical ailments that can serve as signals until the victim’s death ...
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Counter-Insurgency Strategy, the PCP-Sendero Luminoso and the Civil War in Peru, 1980–1996
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 1998Lewis Taylor
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