Topic: Shining Path Guerilla Movement
A Peruvian ex-army officer known as the "Butcher of the Andes" and accused of killing 69 peasants in the 1980s, has been extradited to Peru from the United States to face charges, police said.Telmo Hurtado is accused of commanding a military ...
LIMA (Reuters) - Dozens of Peruvians, among them two mayors and leaders of coca growing groups, were arrested on Friday for alleged ties to cocaine traffickers and Maoist guerrillas in the world's No. 1 coca leaf producer, officials said.The arrests, made ...
The Morales government committed itself to reestablishing constitutional rule, and a popularly elected Constituent Assembly was summoned in June 1978 to draft a new constitution. The new leader-young, charismatic Alan Garcia Perez-shocked the international community when he announced that Peru would pay ...
LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police have arrested a top commander of the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group in an operation in which two alleged rebel fighters were killed, local media reported on Wednesday.Edgar Mejia, also known as "Comrade Izula," was detained at ...
Shining Path militants, out of prison, running for office in Peru on pro-amnesty slateThe Shining Path spilled rivers of blood two decades ago as it tried to impose an agrarian-based communist state on Peru, its fighters known to cut off the fingers ...
VIZCATAN, Peru (Reuters) - With the sudden burst of a fireball and a blast of heat, another clandestine cocaine lab in a remote jungle valley on the front line of Peru's drug war went up in flames.Minutes earlier, drug runners fled ...
Abimael Guzman, founder of Shining Path guerrillas, married in Peru prisonThe founder of the once-fearsome Shining Path guerrilla group married his longtime lover on Friday in the maximum-security prison where he is serving a life term, a prison official said.The 75-year-old ...
Followers of jailed Shining Path leader want to participate in regional elections in PeruFollowers of jailed Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman said Monday they want to participate in regional and municipal elections scheduled for October.A Cabinet minister said the government would ...
Thirty years after unleashing a blood-soaked wave of terror, remnants of the Shining Path guerrillas are either in prison, working as hired guns for drug runners, or looking for ways to take part in Peru's democracy.That is a far cry ...
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Peru Captures Communist Rebel Leader
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