“Protests have mounted demanding the resignation of Manuel Merino, the former speaker of congress who was sworn in as president on Tuesday, with tens of thousands of people filling the streets of Lima and dozens of towns and cities.”
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Javier Puente: “Making Peru’s Sendero Luminoso: The Mega Niño of 1982-3”
‘In 1980, as Peru returned to democracy after more than a decade of military rule, both the state and civil society faced an unparalleled challenge. Sendero Luminoso – an Ayacucho-based, Maoist party led by philosophy professor Abimael Guzmán – declared an armed struggle against the “reactionary state” and the “bureaucratic-terrateniente dictatorship” embedded within the nascent…