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The common name of this group, the Shining Path, distinguishes it from several other Peruvian communist parties with similar names (see Communism in Peru).The name is derived from a maxim of José Carlos Mariátegui, the founder of the original Peruvian Communist Party (from which the rest of communist parties split; now commonly known as the "PCP-Unidad") in the 1920s: "El Marxismo-Leninismo ...
Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path rebels who nearly toppled the Peruvian state in a bloody Maoist revolution, died on Saturday while in prison and following several weeks of poor health ...
In February 1964, he married Augusta La Torre, who was instrumental in founding Shining Path. [7] [8] She died under unclear circumstances in 1988. Guzmán and Elena Iparraguirre, a long-time lieutenant of Guzmán's and his lover, have both refused to talk about La Torre's fate since their imprisonments. In the fall of 2006, while in prison ...
This was the first massacre committed by the Shining Path against members of a peasant community. Abimael Guzmán, the founder and leader of the Shining Path, admitted that the Shining Path carried out the attack and explained the rationale behind it in an interview with El Diario, a pro-Shining Path newspaper based in Lima. In the interview ...
According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Shining Path guerrilla attacks claimed an estimated 12,500 lives during the organization's active phase. [88] On 16 July 1992, the Tarata bombing , in which several car bombs exploded in Miraflores , Lima's wealthiest district, killed over 40 people; the bombings were characterized by one ...
The origin of the term Shining Trenches comes from a quotation of Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán: "Having become prisoners of war, [combatants] never kneeled but persisted in fighting, mobilizing and producing in ardent struggles; they transformed the sordid dungeons of the outdated and rotten Peruvian State into luminous trenches of combat.
In 2008 it was reported that captured Shining Path documents showed that Comrade Jose was claiming to be the successor of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzmán. [2] On 31 May 2009 Comrade José gave an interview to a reporter from Punto Final, a Peruvian news show.
The Operation Camaleón was an anti-terrorist operation carried out on August 11, 2013 by the Peruvian Armed Forces and the Peruvian National Police that resulted in the death of "Comrade Alipio" (Alejandro Borda Casafranca), number two of the remnants of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path and "Comrade Gabriel" (Martín Antonio Quispe Palomino).