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Shining Path

Peru's president reshuffling cabinet over scandal (Reuters)

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Alan Garcia fired his entire cabinet on Friday in an effort to deal with a widening corruption scandal that has caused the biggest crisis of his administration. Garcia had faced calls from...

Peru says 14 killed in Shining Path attack

Shining Path rebels ambushed a column of military trucks in Peru's southeastern mountains with a bomb and gunfire, the military high command said Friday, killing 12 soldiers and two civilians in the deadliest rebel attack in...

Ambush claims lives of 12 soldiers, 7 civilians in Peru [The Earth Times Online Newspaper]

Lima - An ambush by alleged remnants of the leftist armed group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) claimed the lives of 12 soldiers and seven civilians in Peru's central mountains, the Peruvian Armed Forces said Friday. The ambush...

Terrorist group Sendero Luminoso bombs Peru convoy, kills 19

Living in Peru Israel J. Ruiz According to preliminary military reports, a group of subversives belonging to the narco-terrorist group Sendero Luminoso left nineteen people dead and a group of women and children injured in one...

1 Peru soldier, 5 rebels dead in military campaign

Suspected Shining Path rebels killed a Peruvian soldier in a remote coca-producing region where the military is waging an offensive against a rebel stronghold, military officials said. The soldier died Wednesday when his patrol...

Latin America: Peruvian Coca Growers Push Into Indian Lands

Impelled by profits from the coca trade and crackdowns in other parts of the country, coca farmers in Peru's south-central Apurimac and Ene River Valleys (VRAE) region are pushing into indigenous lands in the country's Amazon...

PERU: Native Groups Hemmed in by Coca Threat

By Milagros Salazar SATIPO, Peru, Oct 6 (IPS) - Small farmers from Peru’s impoverished Andean highlands provinces of Ayacucho are moving into indigenous land in the country’s central jungle region to grow coca. The commissioner...

How left-wing Canada elects a right-wing government

We Canadians are having an election too, on October 14, a few weeks before our southern neighbours in the U.S.A. By the standards of most countries in the world, Canada's political climate is a social democratic one,...

The Shining Path: Paintings

Artist's book with details of Jeff Koegel's work from 2008. Centered on the relationship people have cultivated with the landscape, the paintings contemplate humanity as nature's manipulator and explore themes of myth-making,...

Shining Path leader rejects surrender call

LIMA, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The leader of Peru's tattered Shining Path leftist rebel force apparently maintains he won't surrender and instead is calling for a negotiated amnesty deal. In a radio interview, a man purporting...

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