Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru's Northern Highlands (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Latin American Studies)
By Lewis Taylor.
Description
The jagged edges of South American societies attest to innumerable wars, relentless poverty, and a host of illicit activity that make the region a tumultuous brew of politics and military aggression. Peru in particular suffered one of the bloodiest civil wars in contemporary Latin American history during the 1980s and early 1990s, when the Sendero Luminoso, or “Shining Path,” launched an assault to overthrow the national government. Lewis Taylor focuses here on an under-examined yet crucially important aspect of this pivotal conflict, the Northern Front in the northern highlands...
ISBN(s)
1846310164, 9781846310164
