InSight Crime Analysis While the Shining Path is far weaker than in the 1990s, when it was blamed for tens of thousands of deaths, these latest attacks prove it continues to likely be Peru’s foremost ...

The Shining Path controversies that spurred Peru’s gov’t shake-up Peru’s President Pedro Castillo changed his cabinet amid accusations some ministers sympathised with the Maoist rebel group.

Peru's Maoist Shining Path guerrilla movement, whose founder Abimael Guzman's body was cremated on Friday, is listed as a terrorist organization by the Lima government. All but dismantled, a few ...

The Shining Path, it found, was responsible for 54 percent of the victims. Almost all of its leaders have been captured but about 200 remnants, headed by Victor Quispe Palomino, or "Comrade Jose ...

Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman died on September 11, 2021 in a military prison aged 86 HECTOR MATA AFP/File ...

"When I remember that, I can't sleep." Jorge Castro, Cuenca's nephew, said he joined the Shining Path at 13 in the early 1980s, after they held a recruitment meeting in town.

Before dusk in the 1980s locals would often run into the hills in case brutal Shining Path militants came through in their long-running battle to topple the Peruvian state and impose their own Maoist ...

The Shining Path was severely weakened after Guzmán's capture and his later calls for peace talks. Small bands of rebels have nevertheless remained active in remote valleys, producing cocaine and ...

LIMA, Peru — Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the brutal Shining Path insurgency in Peru who was captured in 1992, died on Saturday in a military hospital after an illness. He was 86.

Shining Path’s bold and immaculately planned attacks, its networks of informants and spies, and Guzman’s uncanny ability to evade arrest gave him an almost legendary reputation for seeming to ...

At its peak, the Shining Path could claim around 10,000 members who actively waged war against the state and the people of Peru, bombing electrical towers, bridges and factories in the countryside ...