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Turning the Clock Back To Chaos?(Shining Path party becomes active again in Peru)

Newsweek International

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Mario Ayala Otarola is running scared. The mayor of San Miguel de Ene fled his isolated village in the jungles of eastern Peru last December. He had heard that a column of Shining Path guerrillas operating in the area planned to assassinate him. Three local mayors have gone into hiding after receiving death threats, and the rebels have warned employees of a U.S.-funded development project that they are under surveillance and should not interfere with local coca farming. "Either you're with Shining Path or you must leave the area," says the 50-year- old sesame farmer who escaped with his wife and five children. "The narcos and Shining Path are helping each other, and that ...

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