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Sendero Luminoso and the Peasantry of Andahuaylas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ronald H. Berg
Ronald H. Berg*
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Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities (LASPAU)
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Since 1980 the maoist party known as Sendero Luminoso, the “Shining Path,” has been waging a guerrilla campaign against the civilian government of Peru. To the surprise of most observers, this group not only has survived but has expanded its scope of operations, kept the military on the defensive, and attracted a small but significant national following.

This limited success is puzzling because of the movement's small size, its lack of arms and its extreme radicalism, in a country with a diverse and substantial Left. Sendero Luminoso, calling itself the Communist Party of Peru, holds to an orthodox Maoist philosophy.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , Winter 1986 , pp. 165 - 196
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Copyright © University of Miami 1987

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