Peru’s military say Shining Path insurgents killed 16 civilians. Others are not so sure. Here’s how the politics of fear — and the legacy of old violence — may factor into Sunday’s voting.

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The Shining Path’s activity died down significantly until the mid-2000s, when there was a resurgence, including attacks on multinational corporations, particularly from the VRAEM branch. The Huallaga ...

The Shining Path controversies that spurred Peru’s gov’t shake-up. Peru’s President Pedro Castillo changed his cabinet amid accusations some ministers sympathised with the Maoist rebel group.

In just the month of February 1992, Shining Path had bombed the U.S. ambassador's residence in Lima, killing three police officers, and assassinated a popular left-wing mayor.

The Shining Path, the Maoist terrorist group that wreaked havoc in Peru in the 1980s, has admitted defeat, a leader claims.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Renzo Aroni, historian of modern Latin America, about the legacy of Abimael Guzmán, founder of the Shining Path, who died on Saturday.

Peruvian authorities say members of the Shining Path rebel group have killed 16 people, including two children, in a poverty-stricken, coca-growing region southeast of the capital, Lima.

In this Sept. 1992 file photo, Abimael Guzmán, the founder and leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, shouts inside of a jail cell after being captured in Lima, Peru.

Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, known as ‘Sendero Luminoso’ in Spanish, died in prison on Saturday, according to the country’s National Penitentiary ...

The Shining Path, the Maoist terrorist group that wreaked havoc in Peru in the 1980s, has admitted defeat, a leader claims.