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The Shining Path - Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes (Hardcover)
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The Shining Path - Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes (Hardcover)
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On 17 May 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five
masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set
election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night but not before
planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square. The
lone man arrested the next morning later swore allegiance to a
group called Shining Path. 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. 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 Communist government. At its
helm was the professor-turned-revolutionary Abimael Guzman, who
launched his single-minded insurrection alongside two women: his
charismatic young wife, Augusta La Torre and the formidable Elena
Iparraguirre, who married Guzman soon after Augusta's mysterious
death. Their fanatical devotion to an outmoded and dogmatic
ideology, and the military's bloody response, led to the death of
nearly 70,000 Peruvians. Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna's narrative
history of Shining Path is both panoramic and intimate, set against
the socioeconomic upheavals of Peru's rocky transition from
military dictatorship to elected democracy. They take readers deep
into the heart of the rebellion and the lives and country it nearly
destroyed. We hear the voices of the mountain villagers who
organised a fierce rural resistance and meet the irrepressible
black activist Maria Elena Moyano and the Nobel Prize-winning
novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who each fought to end the bloodshed.
Deftly written, The Shining Path is an exquisitely detailed account
of a little-remembered war that must never be forgotten.
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