The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) was a fictionalised portrayal of a leftist revolutionary’s failure, and Death in the Andes (1993), on the Shining Path guerrillas, contrasted both state ...

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 ...

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 label drew up a list of replacement names (which included ‘The Shining Path’, ‘Whirlpool, ‘The Government’ and ‘Sensitize’). The band settled on the name Blur." Even after the ...

He also ran against the brutal terrorism of the Sendero Luminoso, the Shining Path Maoist rebel group which killed an estimated 70,000 Peruvians, as he told NPR. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR ...

As Peruvians grappled with hyperinflation, as well as a bombing campaign carried out by the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group, Mr. Vargas Llosa temporarily stopped writing fiction and formed ...

As Peruvians grappled with hyperinflation, as well as a bombing campaign carried out by the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group, Vargas Llosa temporarily stopped writing fiction and formed his ...

"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.

His free-speech activism made authoritarian enemies. After the Maoist guerrillas of the “Shining Path” launched their insurrection in 1980, Peru’s civil strife left deeper wounds.