What did the Shining Path do to farmers in Peru?

The peasants were their primary victims. There is a lot of information in this topic, but let's keep it simple. They: 1. Stole their property as war contributions 2. Kill the ones they identified as “bourgeois” 3. read more

The peasants were their primary victims. There is a lot of information in this topic, but let's keep it simple. They: 1. Stole their property as war contributions 2. read more

The Communist Party of Peru (Spanish: Partido Comunista del Perú), more commonly known as the Shining Path (Spanish: Sendero Luminoso), is a communist militant group in Peru. When it first launched the internal conflict in Peru in 1980, its stated goal was to replace the bourgeois democracy with "New Democracy". read more

In particular, the farmers of Peru and their economic needs were secured directly to the political needs of the Shining Path, simply because Peru was and currently is the largest producer of coca for cocaine - 65% of the total production worldwide. read more