([1] Miami Herald) “The Shining Path [Sendero Luminoso in Spanish] rebels who terrorized Peru decades ago are back … And unlike before, the rebels have almost unlimited financial support,” reports the Miami Herald. “Earning cash by protecting coca fields and cocaine-smuggling routes, they are able to buy powerful weapons and pay salaries to men and women who take up arms against the government” of “Peru, which saw nearly 70,000 people killed from 1980 to the mid-90’s in the Shining Path’s brutal effort to impose a Maoist communist regime.… The country has enjoyed more than a decade of political stability since the rebel threat was virtually eliminated by” Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian president from 1990 to 2000.

[2] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/552250.html