Taking Note

Mark Fried
President Bush traveled across Latin America in December to promote his "Enterprise for the Americas Initiative," a proposal to eliminate all barriers to free trade "from Anchorage to Tierra del Fuego." Like the Brady debt-relief plan before it, the Baker plan before that, and the Caribbean Basin Initiative before that, this package is intended above all to assuage Latin American leaders whose careers depend on maintaining the fiction that the United States cares about them.

Intro

NACLA
For the third year running, more people have been "disappeared" in Peru than anywhere else in the world. Ten years of war between the armed forces and the Communist Party of Peru, known as Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), have left 3,000 people disappeared and nearly 18,000 dead.

Report

Carlos Ivan Degregori
A small group from the Andean mestizo has declared itself the beacon of world revolution, its leader the "fourth sword of Marxism." Their quasi-religious world-view, a hybrid of Maoist and Peruvian authoritarianism, resonates in the mountains where feudalism is still fading.
Carol Andreas
Teenage women are said to form the core of Shining Path's military might. The party's vow to destroy all governing structures, and its hard line on domestic violence and adultery, appeal to poor Indian women, battered by economic "development" and ignored by the state and the legal Left.

Article

Jo-Marie Burt
THE WAR AGAINST SENDERO LUMINOSO HAS become synonymous with the systematic violation of human rights. About half of the nearly 18,000 killed since 1980 (the majority of them civilians) died at the hands of the security forces.
David Stoll
"Horrendous," was the reaction from Americas Watch. "Lure of the Iron Fist," reported the Miami Herald.
Sendero Luminoso and the Threat of Narcoterrorism by Gabriela Tarazona- Sevillano with John B. Reuter, Center for Strategic and International Studies/ Praeger, 1990, 168 pp.
Killer Coca After failing for years to curb South America's coca leaf crops, U.S.
Carlos Iván Degregori
OCTOBER 1982. IN THE COMMUNITY OF NIN- acushma, of the department of Huancavelica, a guer- rilla column is holding one of its habitual sessions of indoc- trination.
Carlos Iván Degregori
IT WAS A FEW MINUTES BEFORE NOON ON APRIL 8, 1987 when a Senderista "annihilation commando" entered San Juan de Salinas, in the department of Puno near the Bolivian border. ZenobioHuarsala knew who they were after.
José Luis Rénique
MOST OF THE YEAR LIMA IS GRAY AND SAD. This is particularly striking at the city's edge because the desert landscape is laid bare.
Anita Fokkema
Luis Arce Boraa is the editor of El Diario, a pro-Sendero newspaper published in Lima. He was interviewed in Bel- gium, where he lives in exile.
Nelson Manrique
PERU'S FORMER PRESIDENT FERNANDO BE- latinde Terry is someone for whom proper manners are paramount. Every time he had to say something about the guerrilla movement growing in the mountains, he would simply label it "terrorist"; the word implied such a departure from acceptable behavior that no more needed to be said.