Peru: Sendero Luminoso
(see also Maoism, Peru, Peru since 1968 & Latin America: Drug War)
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
The Day the Maoists Went to Court. Elliott Gotkine, BBC (11/6/04).
People's War in Peru Archive (of the PCP).
Sendero Luminoso (links to a wide variety of sources pro & con).
Angell, Alan. "Classroom Maoists: the politics of Peruvian schoolteachers," Bulletin of Latin American Research 1,2 (1982):1-20.
Anon. "Peru: highlands face political violence & natural disaster," International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs, Newsletter 35/36 (10-12/83):165-78.
Ansion, Juan. "Sendero Luminoso: la política como religión," Cristianismo y Sociedad 106 (1990):115-29.
Barton, Carol. "Peru: 'Dirty War' in Ayacucho," NACLA Report 17,3 (6-7/83):36-39.
Bennett, Philip. "Corner of the dead," Atlantic (5/84):28-33. On Sendero Luminoso.
__________. "Pol Pot in Peru: Shining Path to a dark future," New Republic (1/28/85):16-18.
Berg, Ronald. "Sendero Luminoso & peasants of Andahuaylas," Journal of Inter-American Studies & World Affairs 28,4 (1986-7):165-96.
Bonner, Ray. "Peru's war," New Yorker (1/4/88):31-58.
Bourque, Susan C. & Kay B. Warren. "Democracy without peace: the cultural politics of terror in Peru,"Latin American Research Review 24,1 (1989):7-34.
Carlessi, Carolina. "Lima: the reconquest," NACLA Report 234 (11-12/89):14-21.
Castro, Daniel. "'War is our daily life': women's participation in Sendero Luminoso," in G.M. Yeager (ed.) Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition (Wilmington DE, 1994), pp. 219-25.
__________. "The Iron Legion: women & armed struggle in Peru, 1980-1992," in Revolution & Revolutionaries (?, 1998).
Dietz, Henry. "Revolutionary organization in the countryside: Peru," in Schutz & Slater (eds.) Revolution & Political Change in the Third World (Boulder, 1990).
Farje, Javier. "Peru: 'missing persons,' peasant communities & Sendero Luminoso: the Argentinian solution," IWGIA Newsletter 43/44 (9&12/85):260-72.
Farnsworth, Elizabeth. "Peru: a nation in crisis," World Policy Journal 5 (fall 1988):725-46.
Forero, Juan. "Shining path rebels are spreading terror again in Peru," NY Times (7/23/03): A4.
Gianotten, V. et al. ""The impact of Sendero Luminoso on regional & national politics in Peru," in Slater (ed.) New Social Movements & the State in Latin America (Amsterdam, 1985).
González, Raúl. "Gonzalo's thought, Belaunde's answer," NACLA Report 20,3 (6/86):34-36.
Granados, Manuel Jesús. "PCP Sendero Luminoso: aproximaciones a su ideología," Socialismo y Participación (Lima) 37 (1987):15-35.
Guillermoprieto, Alma. "Down the Shining Path," New Yorker (2/8/93):64-75. On the capture of Sendero Luminoso leader Abimael Guzmán.
Harding, Colin. "The rise of Sendero Luminoso," in R. Miller (ed.) Region & Class in Modern PeruvianHistory (Liverpool, 1987).
__________. "Antonio Diaz Martínez & the ideology of Sendero Luminoso," Bulletin of Latin American Research 7,1 (1988):65-74.
Heires, Gregory N. "Fujimori's legacy," In These Times (9/39/02):21.
Isbell, Billie Jean. "Languages of domination & rebellion in highland Peru," Social Education 49,2 (1985):119-21.
King, Brian. "Peru & the US Left," Monthly Review (10/93):51-4.
Kirk, Robin. "Women warriors at core of Peruvian rebellion," SF Chronicle (4/1/91).
Kruijt, Dirk. "Ethnic civil war in Peru: the military & the Shining Path," in K. Gosner & A. Ouweneel (eds.) Indigenous Revolts in Chiapas & the Andean Highlands (Amsterdam, 1996), pp. 241-58.
Manrique, Nelson. "La década de la violencia," Márgenes (Lima) 5-6 (1989):137-82.
Masterson, Daniel. "In the shining path of Mariátegui, Mao Zedong or Presidente Gonzalo? Peru's Sendero Luminoso in historical perspective," Journal of Third World Studies 10,1 (spr 1994).
Mayer, Enrique. "Patterns of violence in the Andes," Latin American Research Review 29,2 (1994):141-71.
McClintock, Cynthia. "Sendero Luminoso: Peru's Maoist guerrillas," Problems of Communism 32 (9-10/83):19-34.
__________. "Why peasants rebel: the case of Peru's Sendero Luminoso," Human Organization 37,1 (1984):48-84.
__________. "The Shining Path & Peruvian terrorism," Journal of Strategic Studies 10 (12/87):109-28.
__________. "The war on drugs: the Peruvian case," Journal of Inter-American Studies & World Affairs 30 (sum-fall 1988):127-42.
__________. "Peru's Sendero Luminoso: origins & trajectory," in S. Eckstein (ed.) Power & Popular Protest (Berkeley, 1989), pp. 61-101.
Melgar Bao, Ricardo. "Sendero Luminoso y su guerra final, 1980-1984," Cuicuilco (México) 16 (1-6/85):36-43.
Millones, Luis. "La tragedia de Uchuraccay: informe sobre Sendero," Cristianismo y Sociedad 76 (1983):63-72.
Montoya, Rodrigo. "Peru: linderos de Sendero," Nexos (México) 74 (2/84):7-10.
Neira, Hugo. "Violencia y anomía: reflexiones para intentar comprender," Socialismo y Participación (Lima) 37 (1987):1-13.
Palmer, David Scott. "The origins & evolution of Sendero Luminoso," Comparative Politics 18,2 (1986):127-46.
__________. "The revolutionary terrorism of Peru's Shining Path," in M. Crenshaw (ed.) Terrorism in Context (University Park MD, 1995).
Peckenham, Nancy. "Peru: Ayacucho under siege," NACLA Report 19,3 (5-6/85):6-8.
Regatero, Felipe. "'Sendero Luminoso': ¿Nuevo mesianismo andino?" Indigenismo (Madrid) 3 (1/84):12-15.
Salcedo, José María. "The price of peace: a report from the emergency zone," NACLA Report 20.,3 (6/86):37-42.
Shakespeare, Nicholas. "In pursuit of Guzmán," Granta (1988?).
Spalding, Hobart. "Peru on the brink," Monthly Review (1/92), with critique by Gary P. Leupp in 44,10 (3/93):25-30 & Spalding, "Peru today: still on the brink" pp. 31-39.
Starn, Orin. "New literature on Peru's Sendero Luminoso," Latin American Research Review 27,2 (1992):212-26.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. "Inquest in the Andes," NY Times Magazine (7/31/83):18-23.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Brown, Michael F. & Eduardo Fernández. War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon (Berkeley: U. of California, 1991). Asháninka from the rubber boom to encounter with Sendero Luminoso.
Degregori, Carlos Ivan. Sendero Luminoso: los hondos y mortales desencuentros & Sendero Luminoso: Lucha armada y utopía autoritaria ( Lima, 1985).
Flores Galindo, Alberto. Tiempo de plagas (Lima: Caballo Rojo, 1988).
Gagnon, Fr. Mariano OFM with William & Marilyn Hoffer. Warriors in Eden (NY: Wiliam Morrow, 1993. Asháninka in encounter with Sendero Luminoso.
Gorriti, Gustavo. The Shining Path: A History of the Millennarian War in Peru (Sendero: Historia de la guerra milenaria en el Peru) [1990] (trans. Robin Kirk; Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1999).
Kirk, Robin. Grabado en piedra. Las mujeres de Sendero Luminoso (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1993).
Lora, Guillermo. Sobre Sendero Luminoso (La Paz, 1984).
Maust, John. Peace & Hope in the Corner of the Dead: A Story of Tragedy & Hope from Ayacucho, Peru (Miami, 1987).
Mercado, Rogger. El Partido Comunista del Peru: Sendero Luminoso (Lima: Ediciones de Cultura Popular, 1982). Important for ideology.
__________. Los partidos políticos
en el Peru: el APRA, el PCP y Sendero Luminoso: síntesis
historiográfica, documentos (Lima Ediciones Latinoamericanas, 1985).
__________ (comp.) Algo más sobre Sendero: teoría y táctica, violencia, represión y desaparecidos: documentos (Lima: Ediciones de Cultura Popular, 1987).
Palmer, David Scott (ed.) The Shining Path of Peru (NY: St. Martin's, 1992).
Poole, Deborah & Gerardo Renique. Peru: Time of Fear (London: Latin America Bureau, 1992).
Stern, Steve J. (ed.) Shining & Other Paths: War & Society in Peru, 1980-1995 (Durham NC: Duke, 1998).
Tarazona-Sevillano, Gabriela with John B. Reuter. Sendero Luminoso & the Threat of Narcoterrorism (NY: Praeger, 1990).
Taylor, Lewis. Maoism in the Andes: Sendero Luminoso & the Contemporary Guerrilla Movement in Peru (Liverpool: Center for Latin American Studies, 1998).
Vallejo Vidal, José Antonio. La verdad sobre Sendero Luminoso (Lima, 1997).
In the Library: Fiction
Shakespeare, Nicholas. The Vision of Elena Silves (London: Collins Harville, 1989).
__________. The Dancer Upstairs (London: Collins Harvile, 1995).
Vargas Llosa, Mario. Lituma en los Andes [Death in the Andes] (?, 1993; English trans. NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1996).
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Photography
"The Dancer Upstairs" [2002], dir. John Malkovich, 133m. In video stores. Dramatization of police detective's pursuit & capture of somebody like Presidente Gonzalo.
"Paper Dove (Paloma de papel)" [2003], dir. Fabrizio Aguilar, 90m. Village boy recruited & trained by (unnamed) Sendero, deserts, & sees terrible destruction wrought on his hometown & family.
"Peru: Inca Indians Return Home" [200?], by Journeyman Films, 15m. From Filmakers' Library. Following devastation of civil war.
"Peru: Between the Anvil & the Hammer" [199?], dir. ?, 52m. From Films for the Humanities & Sciences.