Abstract:
At the end of 1980 the inhabitants of the Peruvian capital, Lima, woke up to the extraordinary sight of dead dogs hanging from lamp posts and traffic lights. Attached to the animals were signs announcing ‘Deng Xiao Ping. Son of a Bitch’. This extraordinary incident is just one example of why Peru’s Shining Path guerilla movement is so difficult to fit into the neat categories used to classify the revolutionary Left. Originating as a Maoist split from the Peruvian Communist Party in the late 1970s. Shining Path or Sendero Luminoso has long denounced the Chinese and Cuban communists as well as the former Sandinista and Soviet governments.
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