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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[4] The problem now, in addition to Shining Path's long-term goal of overthrowing market-based democracy in Peru, is the narco-terrorism that funds the group. In the 1990s Shining Path demanded ...

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 ...

LIMA, Peru — Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the brutal Shining Path insurgency in Peru who was captured in 1992, died on Saturday in a military hospital after an illness, the Peruvian government ...

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 ...