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Shining Path is gaining in Peru
Kirk, Robin | April 29, 1991 issue

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This article focuses on Shining Path organization in Peru. The author discusses what is behind the organization's unprecedented advance since its declaration of war on Peru's democratically elected government a decade ago. The genius of the movement is its ability to exploit a class no one else took seriously, and that is young, provincial mestizos, who make up the majority of Peru's population yet face the darkest future. The Shining Path is well organized, and unlike other groups that preach revolution it shows with deeds, not with words. Gustavo Gorriti, a Peruvian journalist who has written a three-volume history of the movement, calls young cholos "the obedient children, the silent, meticulous and hard-working ones."

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SENDERO Luminoso (Guerrilla group); MESTIZOS; RACIALLY mixed people; GOVERNMENT, Resistance to; GORRITI, Gustavo; PERU
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