Jeremy McDermott (BBC): Colombian rebels beat path to Peru

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From the BBC Online
Dated Friday February 6

Colombian rebels beat path to Peru
By Jeremy McDermott, Peru
From Our Own Correspondent

There is revolution in the air in South America once again, with thousands of Marxist guerrillas operating in Colombia, and signs in Peru of a resurgence of the Shining Path, a militant Maoist group which seeks to install a peasant revolutionary authority.
The Shining Path has never been that friendly to journalists, so trying to make contact is very difficult.
In Lima I met members of left-wing parties that have traditionally had links with the Shining Path, and put out the word that I wanted to contact the guerrillas who in the early 1990s brought Peru to its knees.
When the Shining Path leader, Abimael Guzman - known as President Gonzalo - was captured in 1993, the rebel movement all but collapsed. Just a few hard core elements were left, still fighting in the remote highlands.

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