
The Shining Path
Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
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Robert Fass
On May 17, 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.
Described by a US 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 Guzmán, who launched his single-minded insurrection alongside two women: his charismatic young wife, Augusta La Torre, and the formidable Elena Iparraguirre, who married Guzmán 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.
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Historically accurate account
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A story I personally lived during my younger years living in Lima
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Excellent book, highly recommend
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I understand now!
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History as drama
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Understanding my wife
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The events & biographical details of the principle characters are described with plenty of detail without being overwhelming. I was riveted throughout & often angry that though some of the terrorists’ actions were covered by US news sources, the people (particularly Maria Elena Moyano) received little to no coverage.
Fascinating overview of a war little known in the US
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