Peruvian regular forces gunned down between 10 and 15 members of the Shining Path rebel group during an “Operation Patriot” deployment in which the rebels' leader Víctor Quispe Palomino ...

Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia have been found guilty of money laundering Peru's former president, Ollanta Humala, has been found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 15 years ...

Vargas Llosa ran for the presidency in 1990 on free-market reforms and a promise to crush Maoist terrorist groups such as Shining Path, which had murdered thousands of his fellow citizens.

"The Storyteller" (1987) deals with the clash of Indigenous and European cultures in Peru, while "Death in the Andes" (1993) recounts the haunting years of the Shining Path guerrilla movement.

Peruvian officials maintained that the journalists had been killed by indigenous villagers who had mistaken the journalists for members of the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group. The commission's ...

As Peruvians grappled with hyperinflation, as well as a bombing campaign carried out by the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group, Vargas Llosa temporarily stopped writing fiction and formed his ...

His free-speech activism made authoritarian enemies. After the Maoist guerrillas of the “Shining Path” launched their insurrection in 1980, Peru’s civil strife left deeper wounds.

The Storyteller (1987) deals with the clash of Indigenous and European cultures in Peru, while Death in the Andes (1993) recounts the haunting years of the Shining Path guerrilla movement. “An ...

The Storyteller (1987) deals with the clash of Indigenous and European cultures in Peru, while Death in the Andes (1993) recounts the haunting years of the Shining Path guerrilla movement.

Arriola went on to proudly recall that the Armed Forces had defeated the guerrilla groups Shining Path and MRTA, capturing and imprisoning their leaders. Peru remains deeply scarred by this ...