Just two weeks before Peru’s second-round election, the media reported the execution-style murder of 16 civilians, including two children, in the remote jungle district of Vizcatán. The attack ...

The Shining Path and its remnants have been a steady criminal force in Peru for decades, and despite crackdowns by security forces, income from drug production and trafficking keep them afloat. The ...

SEE ALSO: Shining Path Profile Another soldier was killed on March 13 in the same town when a military patrol came under fire from members of the Militarized Communist Party of Peru (Militarizado ...

The bloodbath, which Peru’s official Truth and Reconciliation Report described as “demented”, was revenge for locals rebelling weeks earlier against Shining Path and killing one of its ...

In the remote jungles of Peru, Shining Path guerrillas are terrorizing peasants once again after roughly a 15-year hiatus. Empowered by drug trafficking, the Shining Path has played a major role ...

At the retrial of Shining Path's founder Abimael Guzman, survivors of one of the worst atrocities gathered ... overthrow the existing order and create a perfect communist state in Peru. But, as ...

LIMA, Peru—Peruvian President Ollanta Humala is facing an unexpected challenge: the resurgence of the Shining Path, a brutal guerrilla group that many analysts believed all but extinct after its ...

Castillo has previously denied having any link with the Shining Path or Movadef, an affiliated group. Sunday’s incident follows a particularly difficult year for Peru, which is reeling from the ...

At least six people were killed in a clash between remnants of the defunct Shining Path rebel group and a military patrol in a coca-growing valley in central Peru, a Defense Ministry unit reported ...

The State Department official said Shining Path was also suspected in a separate blast Wednesday in which a small bomb exploded outside an office of Peru's Spanish-owned telephone company ...

The rump faction of the Shining Path was largely confined to jungle regions in eastern Peru. Mr Ramirez was in turn captured in 1999, and is now facing civilian judges, alongside Guzman and other ...