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the shining path

Their representatives stated that the then-existing socialist countries were revisionist, and the Shining Path was the vanguard of the world communist movement. The PCP-SL's ideology and tactics have influenced other Maoist insurgent groups such as the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) and other Revolutionary Internationalist Movement-affiliated organizations.

[1] The Peruvian guerrillas were peculiar in that they had a high proportion of women; 50% of the combatants and 40% of the commanders were women.[2]

The Shining Path has been widely condemned for its brutality,[3][4] including violence deployed against peasants, trade union organizers, competing Marxist groups, elected officials and the general public.[5] The Shining Path is regarded as a terrorist organization by Peru, Japan, the United States, the European Union, and Canada, which consequently prohibit funding and other financial support for the group.[6][7][8][9]

Since the captures of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzmán in 1992 and his successor Comrade Artemio in 2012, the Shining Path has declined in activity.[10][11] Only one remaining group of Shining Path, the Militarized Communist Party of Peru (MPCP), exists in the Valle de los Ríos Apurímac, Ene y Mantaro (VRAEM) region of Peru and has distanced itself from the teaching of Guzmán in order to maintain support of peasants previously persecuted by Shining Path.[11][12][13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_Path