From CNN:(CNN) -- A brutal Maoist guerrilla group that terrorized Peru during the 1980s but pretty much disappeared when top leaders were captured in the 1990s is making a resurgence.
In the latest of several recent attacks by the Sendero Luminoso, known in English as the Shining Path, 14 government soldiers were killed in an ambush this month. It was, a Sendero leader said afterward, "the strongest blow" against the government in quite a while.
It also was not an isolated incident.
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Update: The Return of the Shining Path: Latin America's Downward Spiral -- Counter Terrorism Blog
My Comment: Like Mexico and Colombia, drug money is fueling this insurgency. Cut this flow .... you cut the insurgency. But unlike Colombia or Mexico .... the Shining path are monsters that pales in comparison to the other conflicts in the region.
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