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Beyond the Gonzalo Mystique: Challenges to Abimael Guzmán’s Leadership inside Peru’s Shining Path, 1982–1992

Latin American Research Review, 2023
From the moment it launched its armed insurgency in 1980 until the death of its former leader in September 2021, Peru’s Shining Path mesmerized observers.
Miguel La Serna, Orin Starn
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Shining Path: An apology of violence

Revista de Cultura de Paz, 2018
Sendero Luminoso has been one of the most violent armed groups in the history of the 20th century in Latin America if one observes, for example, the intensity of the fighting or the number of violent deaths during the twelve years of its fight against ...
Jerónimo Ríos Sierra
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The Story behind the Science: Shining a light on the path to discovery [PDF]

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Arturo Casadevall, Lorraine F. Clark
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"But Who Could Have Known? (Grief, Gratitude)"

Latin American Literary Review, 2022
During a year as a Latin American studies university student in Bogota, Colombia, the author grapples with the unexpected news of a family member's sudden death, while observing landscapes in post-Pinochet Chile, post-dictatorship Guatemala, and Shining ...
Thomas Glave
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Conflict Resolution through Force: The Case of Peru, 1980–1993

Iberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2023
This article examines the theory of ripeness and the case of the Peruvian Government and the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrilla group. Its findings show that the conflict was resolved through force, never reaching the point of Mutually Hurting ...
Marina Miron, Andres Eduardo Fernandez-Osorio, Luisa Fernanda Villalba-Garcia   +2 more
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El Partido es la luz del universo. La metáfora de la luz en el discurso inicial de Sendero Luminoso (1966-1976)

Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2021
This article analyses the way in which the metaphorical use of the concept of light in the initial texts issued by Peru’s Communist Party - Shining Path (Partido Comunista del Perú- Sendero Luminoso [PCP-SL]) engendered meanings that united the ...
Ángel Heredia Alarcón
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Indians in : The Influence of 20th-Century Peruvian Intelligentsia on Shining Path’s Ideology

SAGE Open, 2020
During the last decades of the 20th century, Shining Path conceived Indian culture mainly as part of feudalist-capitalist alienation. Consequently, this insurrectionist organization aimed to mobilize the indigenous communities around a class-oriented ...
Alexandra Jima-González, Miguel Paradela-López   +1 more
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Out of the Shadows: ‘New’ Peruvian Cinema, National Identity and Political Violence

Modern Languages Open, 2014
This article focuses on two debut works of cinema that were released within a few months of each other shortly after the turn of the century and which offer quite different modes of representation of the 'dirty war' that devastated Peru for two decades ...
Sarah Barrow
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Novela gráfica y posmemoria

Cahiers d’Études Romanes, 2020
This paper focuses on a Peruvian graphic novel, Rupay: Historias de la violencia política en el Perú (1980–1984), by Luis Rossell, Alfredo Villar, and Jesús Cossío, published in Lima in 2008.
Dunia Gras
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Being a Church in a Time of Violence: Peruvian Church during the Armed Internal Conflict 1980 to 2000

Religions, 2020
During the war with Shining Path (1980–2000) violence in Peru was brutal and extensive. Massive violations of human rights were common, with victims from all regions and social classes, but were particularly intense in rural areas like Ayacucho where the
Cecilia Tovar Samanez
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