Peruvian regular forces gunned down between 10 and 15 members of the Shining Path rebel group during an “Operation Patriot” deployment in which the rebels' leader Víctor Quispe Palomino ...

Abimael Guzman, founder of the Shining Path rebels was discovered at Maritza Garrido Lecca's studio in Lima after a nationwide manhunt in 1992. A military court verdict in 1992 was overturned by ...

Humala, a former army officer who fought against the Maoist Shining Path rebels, first came to national prominence in 2000 when he led a short-lived military rebellion against then-President ...