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BROOKE, James
PERU´S GUERRILLAS BECOME THREAT TO THE CAPITAL
1989
The New York Times
ingles, english, shinnig path, army forces, goverment, violence, alan garcia, malestar social
Resumen:
| HUANCAYO, Peru— Starting from a small nucleus in the Andes, a Communist guerrilla movement has steadily grown in strength in the 1980's to now threaten Peru's coastal cities. |
| In mid-May, about one million people here obeyed an ''armed strike'' order by the Shining Path movement, stopping work for three days in Peru's mining and farming heartland. |
| In a major test of their long-term strategy of strangling Peru's capital from the countryside, the Maoist guerrillas of Sendero Luminoso, or the Shining Path, cut all supplies of food, electric power and export minerals from three Andean provinces to Lima on the Pacific coast. 'Umbilical Cord of Peru' |
| ''Shining Path is no longer a small regional movement,'' said Enrique Bernales, a Socialist Senator in Lima who heads a congressional commission of inquiry on terrorism. ''It can now cut the umbilical cord of Peru.'' |
| The war is expected to intensify in the 1990's. Peru's current economic collapse and 8,000 percent inflation rate are feeding more recruits to the rebellion. Dollars for improved weaponry are flowing from a rebel-controlled river valley that is a source of half the cocaine consumed in the United States. |
| This article has been translated into Spanish |
| LAS GUERRILLAS DEL PERÚ SE HAN CONVERTIDO EN UNA AMENAZA A LA CAPITAL |
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