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...Peruvians savored the sudden feeling of relief -- none more so than the autocratic Alberto Fujimori, who has turned his presidency into a virtual dictatorship, partly to quell the revolution. "Our fear was broken from one day to another," was how Isabel Coral, who works with victims of Shining Path violence, greeted the arrest. In their recent year long assault on Lima, the guerrillas had come close to terrorizing the populace into capitulation. Guzman's arrest not only halted that momentum but, more important, it gave the government's anti-guerrilla campaign a welcome boost. "In a struggle like this...
...will reap the biggest reward. He had promised to pacify the country by the time his term ends in 1995. But he lost international support in April, when he unilaterally dissolved Peru's Congress, shut down the courts and suspended the constitution -- largely in the name of thwarting Shining Path. Frustrated Peruvians approved, but the U.S. was so angry that it suspended aid. Now, in the congressional elections that Fujimori has called for Nov. 22, candidates who back him are expected to | win big, and they could help him enshrine strong presidential powers in a new constitution. The capture...
...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...