Movadef Appeals Election Board Resolution

The Movement for Amnesty and Fundamental Rights, known as Movadef, has appealed a resolution that prevents the group from registering as a political party and participating in elections, daily El Comercio reported. The appeal was presented on Friday to the National Election Board, or JNE. “With the appeal presented, the JNE will program a public [...]

Ex-President Garcia Rejects Movadef As Party

Alan Garcia, Peru’s two-time president, came out hard Tuesday against allowing the Movement for Amnesty and Fundamental Rights, known as Movadef, from registering as a political party. Movadef has close links with the Shining Path, the Maoist-inspired insurgency that launched a bloody battle against the state during the 1980s and 1990s. The conflict led to [...]

Legislators To Back Bill To Block Movadef Registration

Peruvian lawmakers from across the political spectrum said they will approve a bill that would prevent political movements with links to insurgents and other violent groups from becoming registered political parties and participating in local and national elections. Congressman Yehude Simon of the center-right Alianza por el Gran Cambio alliance said that he will ask the president of [...]

Lawyer for jailed Shining Path founder charged with “apology for terrorism” over book announcement

Days after the announcement that a book of manuscripts written by Abimael Guzman – the principal architect and strategist of Peru’s Maoist Shining Path guerrilla – would soon be published, Peru filed apology for terrorism charges against Guzman, his lover and Shining Path’s second-in-command Elena Iparraguirre, as well as his editor and lawyer.

Shining Path rebels attack military base in VRAE, two soldiers left wounded

At least two soldiers were wounded Monday in an attack apparently led by Shining Path guerrillas against a counterinsurgency military base in Peru’s isolated Apurímac and Ene River Valleys, or VRAE. According to daily El Comercio, an undetermined number of guerrillas positioned in the surrounding hills opened fired on the military base at approximately 8:00 [...]

Shining Path founder Abimael Guzmán seeks “family visit” with lover Elena Iparraguirre

Defense lawyers for Abimael Guzman – the principal architect and strategist of Peru’s Maoist Shining Path insurgency – and his partner Elena Iparraguirre have launched a legal crusade to reunite the couple in prison.

Two soldiers, four Shining Path guerrillas dead after shootout in Huancavelica

Two soldiers and four suspected Shining Path guerrillas were killed in the highland department of Huancavelica early Wednesday morning after an operation to capture “Comrade Raúl” turned violent, said Defense Minister Rafael Rey.

One soldier dead and three wounded during narcoterrorist ambush in VRAE

Suspected Shining Path guerrillas based in Peru’s remote Apurimac and Ene River Valleys, or VRAE, ambushed a patrol of soldiers on Monday, leaving one soldier dead and three others wounded. According to daily El Comercio, the attack occurred in Pampa Hermosa, located in the province of Vitzcatán. Though the nature of the injuries, the method [...]

Abimael Guzman’s lawyers file claim with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Shining Path founder hopes for retrial

Defense lawyers for Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, the principal architect and strategist of Peru’s Maoist Shining Path guerrilla, have filed a claim with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to invalidate his life sentence for aggravated terrorism and homicide, insisting that he be retried in an international court. Guzman’s lead attorney, Alfredo Crespo, contends that his [...]