The jagged edges of South American societies attest to innumerable
wars, relentless poverty, and a host of illicit activity that make
the region a tumultuous brew of politics and military aggression.
Peru in particular suffered one of the bloodiest civil wars in
contemporary Latin American history during the 1980s and early
1990s, when the Sendero Luminoso, or “ Shining Path, ” launched an
assault to overthrow the national government. Lewis Taylor focuses
here on an under-examined yet crucially important aspect of this
pivotal conflict, the Northern Front in the northern highlands of
Peru.
"Shining Path "opens with a historical overview of Sendero
Luminoso, moving from its origins to how it grew to
sufficient size and strength to attempt revolt. Taylor then probes
the development and progress of the Sendero Luminoso’ s
revolutionary campaign from 1982 through 1992, analyzing the
factors that catalyzed and sustained a war in which nearly 70,000
lives were lost. The nature of rural revolt and revolution is a
central issue to this study, and Taylor investigates particular
conflicts in the mountainous northern highlands as a vital case
study for guerrilla warfare in harsh rural landscapes.
The wars of the twenty-first century have been marked by the
increasingly successful use of guerrilla warfare. Thus "Shining
Path "is a timely analysis of the political and structural nature
of such warfare and how it will transform the notion and actuality
of war in years to come.
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