Shining Path of Peru / Sendero Luminoso de Perú

The Shinning Path (Sendero Luminoso) guerrilla movement emerged in Peru in the 1980s as the most radical and dogmatic expression of Marxist revolution in the Western hemisphere. Led by a former philosophy professor at the University of Huamanga in Ayacucho, it developed its militantly orthodox Maoist principles from the mid-1960s onward with a small band of committed supporters, virtually ignored by the outside world