Peru’s security forces had what seemed like the perfect plan to ambush a faction of the Shining Path guerrillas on their home turf. But things didn’t play out as expected. Sources say it was the ...

A resurgent Shining Path and a botched military operation have cost the Ministers of Defense and the Interior their jobs, as it becomes clear that the Peruvian government needs to revamp its strategy ...

La vena autoritaria de Fujimori lo sobrevive, incluso entre quienes se declaran opositores al fujimorismo. By Fernando J. Loayza Jordán Lima is a city of contrasts and contradictions — gray and ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Peru asked a federal judge on Tuesday to hand down a life sentence to Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Maoist-inspired rebel group the Shining Path, for allegedly ...

After five hours of deliberations, the Peruvian Supreme Court voted last week to sentence Abimael Guzman, his wife Elena Yparraguirre, Osmán Morote and seven other members of the Maoist guerrilla ...

Archbishop Cabrejos emphasized that it’s time to say “never again to terrorism. Never again violence in Peru, from whatever quarter. Our country has the right to live in peace and build a future that ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian authorities captured two most-wanted leaders of the "Shining Path" rebel group, accused of coordinating attacks which have left nearly two dozen people dead over the past two ...

LIMA, Peru – Imprisoned Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman is being tried for a 1992 car bombing in Peru's capital that killed 25 people and injured 155. The 82-year-old Guzman is already serving a ...

LIMA, Peru — Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the brutal Shining Path insurgency in Peru who was captured in 1992, died Saturday in a military hospital after an illness, the Peruvian government said.

In the 1960s, leftist philosophy professor Abimael Guzman started a Maoist guerilla group at the University of San Cristobal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, Peru. Guzman named this organization in honor of ...

LIMA, Peru — Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the brutal Shining Path insurgency in Peru who was captured in 1992, died on Saturday in a military hospital after an illness, the Peruvian government said.