Fatal Attraction: Peru’s Shining Path

Luis Arce Boraa is the editor of El Diario, a pro-Sendero newspaper published in Lima. He was interviewed in Bel-

MOST OF THE YEAR LIMA IS GRAY AND SAD. This is particularly striking at the city's edge because the desert

OCTOBER 1982. IN THE COMMUNITY OF NIN- acushma, of the department of Huancavelica, a guer- rilla column is holding one

On the night of May 17,1980, the eve of Peru's first presidential elections in 17 years, a group of youths

President Bush traveled across Latin America in December to promote his "Enterprise for the Americas Initiative," a proposal to eliminate

Sendero Luminoso and the Threat of Narcoterrorism by Gabriela Tarazona- Sevillano with John B. Reuter, Center for Strategic and International

THE WAR AGAINST SENDERO LUMINOSO HAS become synonymous with the systematic violation of human rights. About half of the nearly

"Horrendous," was the reaction from Americas Watch. "Lure of the Iron Fist," reported the Miami Herald. "The 900-pound gorilla of

For the third year running, more people have been "disappeared" in Peru than anywhere else in the world. Ten years

In June of 1986, I meet with a leader of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP), the movement known as

IT WAS A FEW MINUTES BEFORE NOON ON APRIL 8, 1987 when a Senderista "annihilation commando" entered San Juan de

Killer Coca After failing for years to curb South America's coca leaf crops, U.S. offi- cials are weighing proposals by