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In Abimael Guzmán Reynoso’s interview in mid-1988, the head of Shining Path (SL or Sendero) said that the party that he calls the Communist Party of Peru had to prepare for an urban insurrection that would cap off his epoch-ending revolution. “Our process of the people’s war has led us to the apogee; consequently, we have to prepare the insurrection which becomes, in synthesis, the seizure of the cities,” he said.1
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This thesis is sustained by Raúl González in “El cambio de estratégia de Sendero y la captura de Morote,” Quehacer, 53, July–August 1988, pp. 16–22; “Escalada Senderista: Fuerza o debilidad?” Quehacer, 61, October–November 1989, pp. 10–15; and “Sendero: Duro desgaste y crisis estratégica,” Quehacer, 63, May–June, 1990, pp. 8–15.
Baltázar Caravedo, Lima: Problema nacional (Lima: Grupo de Estudios para el Desarrollo-GREDES, 1987), pp. 73, 77–78.
Marina Irigoyen, Teresa Chipoco, and Alberto Cheng, Planificatión con el pueblo: Una estratégia de gestion municipal, Ate Vitarte (Lima: Convenio Centro IDEAS-Municipalidad Ate Vitarte, 1988), p. 22.
Denis Sulmont, El movimiento obrem peruano, 1890–1979: Reseña histórica (Lima: Tarea, 1979), p. 157.
Gustavo Gorriti, Sendero: Historia de la guerra milenaria en el Perú, vol. I (Lima: Apoyo, 1990), p. 112.
Jaime Urrutia, “La violencia en la region de Ayacucho,” in Los Niños de la Guerra (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Regionales, “José María Arguedas,” and Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga, 1987), p. 16.
See Isabel Coral, “Ayacuchanos: Migrantes o refugiados de guerra?” Los caminos de laberinto, December 4, 1986, pp. 77–84, and “Refugiados ayacuchanos en Lima,” in Urrutia’s Los niños de la guerra; and Francisco Huamantinco Cisneros, Los refugiados internos en el Perú: Un estudio de aproximación en dos asentamientos humanos de Lima (Lima, 1990).
Jurgen Golte and Norma Adams, Los caballos de troya de los invasores: Estratégias campesinas de la conquista de la Gran Lima (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1987), p. 72.
DESCO, Violencia política en el Perú (Lima: DESCO, 1989), p. 28.
Raúl González, “La cuarta plenaria del Comité Central del S.L.” Quehacer, 44, December 1986–January 1987, pp. 49–53.
See Julio Calderón Cockburn and Luis Olivera Cárdenas, Municipio y pobladores en la habitación urbana (Huaycán y Laderas del Chilián) (Lima: DESCO, 1989).
César Rodríguez Rabanal, Cicatrices de la probreza: Un estudio psicoanalítico (Caracas: Editorial Nueva Sociedad, 1989).
José Enrique Larrea, Poblaciones urbanas precarias: El der echo y el revés (El caso de Ancieta Alta) (Lima: SEA, 1989). With the growth of grass-roots organizations in Peru over the past two decades, many of those who study and work with them have idealized the democratic features of the popular movement, especially since they have frequently focused on the most striking examples, such as Villa El Salvador.
See Jorge Parodi, “Los sindicatos en la democracia vacia,” in Luis Pásara and Jorge Parodi, eds., Democracia, sociedad y gobierno en el Perú (Lima: Centro de Estudios de Democracia y Sociedad — CEDYS, 1988). Parodi’s essay contains a fascinating appendix about the Cromotex plant seizure in which a police SWAT squad killed six workers. Néstor Serpa, a leader of the Cromotex union, first joined Sendero and later went over to MRTA.
Denis Sulmont, Javier Mujica, Vicente Otta, and Raúl Aramendy, Violencia y movimiento sindical (Lima: Red Peruana de Educación Popular y Sindicalismo, 1989), p. 34.
Hugo Salazar, “El teatro peruano de los 80,” Margines, 5–6, December 1989, pp. 63–83.
Perú 1989: En el espiral de la violencia (Lima: Instituto de Defensa Legal), 1990, pp. 212–223.
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Smith, M.L. (1994). Shining Path’s Urban Strategy: Ate Vitarte. In: Palmer, D.S. (eds) The Shining Path of Peru. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05210-0_7
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