Posted on 11/14/2008 2:36:06 PM PST by Cindy
For those of us who were covering the conflicts in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s, there was no group more terrifying than Peru's Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) an Maoist organization intent on causing rivers of blood to flow in order to achieve the proletariat utopia.
After many years and countless dead, Sendero was largely dismantled and its chief ideologue , Abimael Guzman, who ran a horrific cult of personality, was jailed. The group was widely thought to have been put out of business permanently.
Now, as the Washington Post reports, Sendero, a designated terrorist entity, is coming back. Why?
The Shining Path, which has its bases in two coca-producing regions of central Peru, is now heavily involved in drug trafficking and is paying for new recruits.
(Excerpt) Read more at counterterrorismblog.org ...
It’s coming back because the left has been allowed to come back in lots of Latin America. If Bush had been firmer on Chavez, none of this would be happening. And now, with a Communist taking over our very own government, things are going to be grim indeed for Latin America. FARC and Sendero Luminoso will be happy as clams, though.
Now, as the Washington Post reports, Sendero, a designated terrorist entity, is coming back. Why? “
Hmmm, I’ll have to think long and hard about that.
No, we don’t have to think too long about this.
Excerpting doesn’t really do justice to this article and the attached article with a pdf NEFA report.
“FARC and Sendero Luminoso will be happy as clams, though.”
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OPINION: Yep, that seems to be the gist of it.
So that's why the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) opposes closer trade with Columbia and admires Chavez.
You can BET that Chavez, Morales and Castro are all involved in SOME way.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/world/11/21/08/lima-under-lockdown-apec-summit
“Lima under lockdown for APEC summit”
Agence France-Presse | 11/21/2008 10:06 AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “LIMA - Lima is in a state of lockdown for a weekend APEC summit that will bring together the leaders of 21 member economies, among them US President George W. Bush and his Russian and Chinese counterparts.
“We are in a state of maximum alert and we have mobilized 39,000 police officers and members of anti-terrorist units,” Peruvian General Julio Vergara, in charge of security for the event, told AFP.
Metal barriers have been placed around the summit’s venue — an already well-protected army headquarters — and security details are deployed at delegates’ hotels. Helicopters and air force planes patrol the sky.
Escort squads have also been assigned to each of the heads of state and government, and police snipers are stationed on several rooftops, while teams prepared for radiological, chemical and biological attacks are on standby.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A few members of the Shining Path rebel group last weekend shot dead three police officers and injured another one in the southeast of the country.
The far-left movement was blamed for a car bombing outside the US embassy in Lima in 2002, shortly before another visit by Bush, that killed nine people.
Police last weekend also arrested a Peruvian man hauling 36 grenades in central Lima. They were investigating his motives.”
as of 11/21/2008 10:06 AM
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