Related Research Articles
The Shining Path, self-named the Communist Party of Peru, is a far-left political party and guerrilla group in Peru, following Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Gonzalo Thought. Academics often refer to the group as the Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path to distinguish it from other communist parties in Peru.
Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, also known by his nom de guerreChairman Gonzalo, was a Peruvian Maoist guerrilla leader and convicted terrorist. He founded the organization Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path (PCP-SL) in 1969 and led a rebellion against the Peruvian government until his capture by authorities on 12 September 1992. He was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism and treason.
María Elena Moyano Delgado was an Afro-Peruvian community organizer and feminist who was assassinated by the Shining Path. She grew up in poverty in the Villa El Salvador pueblo joven, then became involved in local activism. She was twice president of FEPOMUVES and at the time of her death was deputy mayor. Her funeral was attended by 300,000 people and resulted in a downturn in support for the Shining Path. She received the Peruvian Order of Merit posthumously.
The Peruvian Internal Conflict is an ongoing armed conflict between the Government of Peru and the Maoist guerilla group Shining Path and its remnants. The conflict's main phase began on 17 May 1980 and ended in December 2000. From 1982 to 1997 the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement waged its own insurgency as a Marxist–Leninist rival to the Shining Path.
Chuschi District is one of six districts of the Cangallo Province in Peru. It is known for being the site of the first attack perpetrated by the maoist terrorist organization Shining Path, initiating the Peruvian conflict.
Edith Lagos was a Peruvian terrorist who was a member of the party Shining Path, one of the multiple Communist Parties of Peru. Lagos was a prominent promoter of the group's agenda.
Augusta Deyanira La Torre Carrasco, also known as Comrade Norah, was a Peruvian communist, recognized as the number two in command of Shining Path. La Torre's influence on her husband, Shining Path founder Abimael Guzmán, is credited with establishing equality for women with regard to participation within the revolutionary organization, and during its militant actions.
Comrade José is a Peruvian communist militant, leader of the Militarized Communist Party of Peru, an offshoot of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist guerrilla Shining Path. The group is present in the VRAEM region.
The Assault of Ayacucho prison was an incident in the Peruvian city of Ayacucho, also known as Huamanga, on March 2, 1982. A group of 150 armed terrorists, members of the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, staged simultaneous assaults on two local police stations before staging an assault on the prison, resulting in the release of 255 inmates. After a 5-hour battle, 16 people, including two prison guards, were dead and 12 people were wounded.
Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza was a Peruvian Quechua human rights activist. She is considered to be a symbol of human rights in Peru and of those who disappeared in the country from 1980 to 2000 as a result of the internal violence in Peru and has been recognized by the International Red Cross and Amnesty International as a "tireless advocate for those women who lost their loved ones."
Gonzalo Thought, also known as Marxism–Leninism–Maoism–Gonzalo Thought and Gonzaloism, is an ideological doctrine developed by Peruvian revolutionary Abimael Guzmán as an interpretation of Peruvian reality based on Marxism–Leninism–Maoism.
The San Miguel del Ene attack was a massacre on 23 May 2021 in San Miguel del Ene, a rural area in the Vizcatán del Ene District of Satipo Province in Peru, in which 18 people were killed. The massacre was most likely perpetrated by the Militarized Communist Party of Peru (MPCP), a split of the Maoist terrorist organization Shining Path. The attack occurred in the Valle de los Ríos Apurímac, Ene y Mantaro (VRAEM) conflict region, where the group operates.
The Militarized Communist Party of Peru is a political party and militant group in Peru that follows Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and participates in the communist insurgency in Peru. It is considered a terrorist organization by the government of Peru. The MPCP operates primarily in the VRAEM area and is involved in the area's coca production. Comrade José has been the leader of the MPCP since its official creation in 2018 after its final split from the declining Shining Path guerilla group.
Guillermo Bermejo Rojas is a Peruvian politician. He was elected for the Congress of Peru for the 2021-2026 period.
The history of Peru between 1980 and 2000 corresponds to the period following the general elections that put an end to the twelve-year military dictatorship that ruled the country since 1968, with Fernando Belaúnde taking office in 1980. The following decade became known as the "lost decade" after the economic stagnation the country experienced, followed by hyperinflation at the end of the decade.
Deng Xiaoping's dogs is a term used by modern Peruvian historiography to refer to a case of animal abuse perpetrated in Lima by Shining Path, a Maoist terror group, in response to Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's unorthodox opening economic reform, distancing himself from the thoughts of Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China.
The Popular Intellectual Movement was an academic-based mass organization created by the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path in 1979 as part of the party's Fourth Expanded Plenary Session, which defined the structure and duties of various legal fronts to serve recruitment of the united front.
On December 6, 1988, Juan Carlos Vega Llona 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", created in name by Shining Path, a Peruvian terrorist organisation. The murder of the embassy's naval attaché was carried out in reprisal for the Peruvian prison massacres that took place two years prior.
DIRCOTE Museum is a museum located in the premises of the National Directorate against Terrorism (DIRCOTE) on Spain Avenue in the historic centre of Lima, managed by the National Police of Peru and which exhibits objects seized from the Shining Path and Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) terrorist groups during the internal armed conflict that devastated Peru during the 1980s and 1990s.
Songs of the Shining Trenches of Combat is a musical album containing communist songs and hymns written by members of the Communist Party of Peru. Published in 1999, it was recorded clandestinely by imprisoned members and sympathizers of the CPP between 1990 and 1992 in the Miguel Castro Castro and the Lurigancho Penitentiary.
References
- 1 2 3 "Sendero Luminoso inició un día como hoy demencial ataque contra el Perú". andina.pe.
- ↑ "Chuschi: Pueblo testigo del primer golpe de Sendero Luminoso". RPP (in Spanish). 17 May 2011.
- ↑ "Visita Mediada "El caso Chuschi: orígenes del periodo de violencia"". lum.cultura.pe.
- ↑ "Historia de la lucha armada de Sendero Luminoso en Perú". elmundo.es .
- 1 2 "Chuschi, el pueblo donde Sendero inició el terror". larepublica.pe (in Spanish). 17 May 2005.
- ↑ "Relato visual del conflicto armado interno en el Perú, 1980-2000". Yuyanapaq. Para recordar.
- 1 2 3 El desmembramiento de Chuschi. Chuschi: I. La quema de ánforas (in Spanish).
- ↑ "La verdadera historia del atentado en Chuschi, primera acción violenta de SL". El Comercio . 17 May 2020.
- ↑ Ellenbogen, Gustavo Gorriti (2008). Sendero: historia de la guerra milenaria en el Perú (in Spanish). Editorial Planeta Perú. ISBN 978-9972-239-46-5.
