In the brittle dawn of 1990, as Peru's economy haemorrhaged and Shining Path guerrillas carved their nihilism into the Andes, Mario Vargas Llosa, a man who had spent decades wrestling dictators ...

The Storyteller (1987) deals with the clash of Indigenous and European cultures in Peru, while Death in the Andes (1993) recounts the haunting and bloody years of the Shining Path hardline movement.

In 1990, Llosa decided to run for the presidency of Peru, leading a campaign for economic reform and a vow to end the ways of the Shining Path rebels. He lost to Alberto Fujimori and he candidly ...

"The Storyteller" (1987) deals with the clash of Indigenous and European cultures in Peru, while "Death in the Andes" (1993) recounts the haunting years of the Shining Path guerrilla movement.

MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, Peru, and he was told his ... terrorism of the Sendero Luminoso, the Shining Path Maoist rebel group which killed an estimated ...

Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the ... as well as a bombing campaign carried out by the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group, Mr. Vargas Llosa temporarily stopped ...

His distaste for the norms of polite society in Peru gave him abundant inspiration ... as well as a bombing campaign carried out by the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group, Vargas Llosa ...

The Storyteller (1987) deals with the clash of Indigenous and European cultures in Peru, while Death in the Andes (1993) recounts the haunting years of the Shining Path guerrilla movement. “An ...