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...million people that was adrift and under siege by Marxist guerrillas. Its annual inflation rate was near 7,600%, and insurgents had three quarters of the country under a state of emergency. Fujimori quickly tackled the hyperinflation, and in 1992 his security forces arrested Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman in a counterinsurgency war that saw more than 70,000 Peruvians disappeared or killed between 1990 and 2000. Fujimori scored social triumphs as well, including granting land titles to urban squatters that made hundreds of thousands of Peruvians homeowners and participants in the formal economy...
...SENTENCED. Abimael Guzmán, 71, founder and leader of Shining Path, the Peruvian Maoist guerilla movement whose bloody campaign to establish communist rule in the 1980s and '90s claimed more than 30,000 lives; to life imprisonment; in Lima. Guzmán's partner Elena Iparraguirre, 59, also received a life sentence and 10 associates got 24 to 35 years. The verdicts end a yearlong hearing before a civil tribunal, Guzmán's third trial since his capture in 1992. His lawyers plan to appeal...
...downtown Lima, inside Peru's National Antiterrorism Bureau, agents are putting the finishing touches on the new Terror Museum. Most of the display cases hold police-confiscated kitsch: rebel soap carvings, music boxes that play communist hymns, all of them bearing the image of Abimael Guzmán. "Presidente Gonzalo," as his followers call him, is the leader of Shining Path, the bloodthirsty Maoist guerrillas who killed more than half of the 69,000 Peruvians who died in the armed conflicts of the 1980s and early '90s, according to a report issued in August by Peru's Truth and Reconciliation...
Rejas' methods are patient and plodding and based on those actually used to peacefully apprehend Abimael Guzman, leader of Peru's Shining Path movement a decade ago. The Dancer Upstairs is also, in its way, patient and plodding--but as realized by John Malkovich, in his directorial debut, utterly absorbing. It is really quite wonderful, in the age of hyperkinetic thrillers, to encounter a movie that takes the time to record the play of thought and emotion in its characters, to let their conflicts develop in a natural and unforced...
...central to Malkovich's life. Early next year he'll release The Dancer Upstairs, the first film he has directed. Based on a novel by British writer Nicholas Shakespeare, it tells the story of an investigator who reluctantly accepts the task of finding the terrorist Ezequiel, modeled on Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, the founder of Peru's Shining Path. "It's not really about terrorism," says Malkovich. "It's about a modern man, one who sees the way the world passes and fights his own corner." A description Malkovich, with an indefinable look of bemusement, would likely accept...