The Shining Path

by Gorriti Ellenbogen, Gustavo; Kirk, Robin; Gorriti, Gustavo

• ISBN13: 9780807846766
• ISBN10: 0807846767
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Pathwas immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing account, it covers the dramatic years between the guerrillas' opening attack in 1980 and President Fernando Belaunde's reluctant decision to send in the military to contain the growing rebellion in late 1982. Covering the strategy, actions, successes, and setbacks of both the government and the rebels, the book shows how the tightly organized insurgency forced itself upon an unwilling society just after the transition from an authoritarian to a democratic regime. One of Peru's most distinguished journalists, Gustavo Gorriti first covered the Shining Path movement for the leading Peruvian newsweekly, Caretas. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and an impressive array of government and Shining Path documents, he weaves his careful research into a vivid portrait of the now-jailed Shining Path leader Abimael Guzm n, Belaunde and his generals, and the unfolding drama of the fiercest war fought on Peruvian soil since the Chilean invasion a century before.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Robin Kirk Preface to the English Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

The Arrest

Return to Democracy

Chuschi

Mohammed

Expectations and the Transfer of Power

The Vanished Files

The Dogs of War

Guerrillas

The Quota

To Capture Weapons and Means

New Democracy

Tambo

The Emergency

Illusions

A City Dominated: A Blow Is Struck in Ayacucho

Let Us Develop the Guerrilla War

The Offer of Asylum to Guzmán

The Colloquium of the Blind: The Intelligence War

The Fall of Vilcashuamán

Party Military Thought

The Siege of Ayacucho

Notes

Index

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