The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes Starn Orin
The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes Starn Orin On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. The…
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The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes Starn Orin
On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. The lone man arrested the next morning later swore allegiance to a group called Shining Path. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square.
State Department cable as "cold-blooded and bestial," Shining Path orchestrated bombings, assassinations, and massacres across the cities, countryside, and jungles of Peru in a murderous campaign to seize power and impose a The tale of how this ferocious group of guerrilla insurgents launched a decade-long reign of terror, and how brave police investigators and journalists brought it to justice, may be the most compelling chapter in modern Latin American history, but the full story has never been told.Described by a U.S.