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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 ...
The Lucanamarca massacre was a mass murder that took place in and around the town of Lucanamarca on 3 April 1983, by Sendero Luminoso rebels. The attack, which claimed the lives of 69 members of indigenous peasant families, was carried out by a local cadre of the Shining Path in reprisal for a lynching death of its local commander.
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 ...
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 ...
On December 6, 1988, Juan Carlos Vega Llona (born February 20, 1942, in Lima) was assassinated one block away from the Peruvian embassy in the district of Cotahuma, La Paz, Bolivia, by armed members of the fictitious "Revolutionary Workers Movement" (Spanish: Movimiento Obrero Revolucionario, MOR), created in name by Shining Path, a Peruvian terrorist organisation.
27 May 2007 – the 27th anniversary of the Shining Path's first attack against the Peruvian state, a homemade bomb in a backpack was set off in a market in the southern Peruvian city of Juliaca, killing six and wounding 48. Because of the timing of the attack, the Shining Path is suspected by the Peruvian authorities of holding responsibility ...
The Ccano massacre was a mass attack on members of the Evangelical Pentecostal Church (see Pentecostal revival movement in Chile) perpetrated by members of the Shining Path in the village of Ccano in La Mar Province, Peru, killing 32 people. The attack was part of the then-ongoing main phase of the Shining Path insurgency.
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.