Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...groups and regional committees with their well-disciplined cadres -- are still intact. "I don't see them disappearing," says Gorriti. "They're too close to victory for that." Other analysts warn that the October offensive Guzman was plotting at the time of his capture may still take place; Shining Path operations are usually planned out in minute detail months in advance. "Don't think this is the end of the party," Alfredo Crespo, Guzman's lawyer and a leader of the Democratic Lawyers Association, allegedly a Sendero front group, told TIME. "The revolution will continue -- and probably get stronger...
...whether Shining Path withers or grows strong again depends on how well the government performs. The conditions that gave rise to the insurgency back in the 1970s -- poverty, injustice, deep resentment over racial and class distinctions -- still prevail. Until Fujimori finds a more stable, equitable, democratic course, there will be impoverished Peruvians willing to subscribe to an alternative vision, no matter how ruthless or violent...
...FIRST PICTURES OF THE CAPTIVE ABIMAEL GUZMAN WERE startling: an obese, bespectacled man obeying police orders to put on his shirt. Could this dumpy, bewildered fellow, last seen publicly in 1979, really be Shining Path's shining light? Here was the mysterious man who billed himself as the "Fourth Sword" of communism -- the successor to Marx, Lenin and Mao. Under the guerrilla alias "Presidente Gonzalo," Guzman fashioned himself into the demigod of a cultlike political movement. As far as his supporters were concerned, Guzman's mythic aura of brilliance, charisma and invincibility shielded him from comparisons with other mortals. Latin...
Until his capture, Guzman shrewdly manufactured and manipulated propaganda to give the impression that Shining Path was everywhere. Uncertainty about whether he was dead or alive enhanced his mystique. Now that it is known that he is very much alive, authorities want to keep him that way. The last thing they want is a dead -- and martyred -- Guzman...
...Shining Path revolution is decapitated -- but not defeated...