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Shining Path
(redirected from Ejercito Popular de Liberacion)

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Noun1.Shining Path - a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade; "Shining Path has been responsible for 30,000 deaths"
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act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
Peru, Republic of Peru - a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries
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But by far the largest number of revolutionary groups in the 1970s and 1980s were led by Marxists of one kind or another, such as the Trotskyist Partito Comunista Revoluzionario in Italy, the Moscow-line Accao Reolucionario Armarda in Portugal or the Castroist Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional in Bolivia or the Maoist Ejercito Popular de Liberacion in Colombia.
The pitfalls of anti-terrorism by Crozier, Brian / National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
 
 
 
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