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Aug 7, 2007
Jeremy Spoke at Virginia Tech
Comrade Artemio
Comrade Artemio | |
Comrade Artemio giving an interview | |
Leader of the Shining Path | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 1999? | |
Preceded by | Óscar Ramírez |
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Political party | Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path |
Comrade Artemio is the alias of the man believed by many to be the current leader of the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group in Peru. While Artemio's real name is unknown, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Rospigliosi, has claimed that Artemio has a national identification card under the false name of José Flórez León. As a result of this card, the government has a picture of the face of the man they believe is Artemio. The CIA World Factbook lists his true identity as Gabriel Macario.
Very little is known about Comrade Artemio. He has appeared in video tapes, but in them he wears a ski mask, often with an extra piece of cloth sewed on to hide even his eyes. Messages supposed to have been written by him make the claim that he is only the regional commander of the Shining Path for Huallaga region, implying that he is not the leader of the entire movement. This might be because he takes the imprisoned former leaders, Abimael Guzmán, or his successor, Óscar Ramírez Durand, to be the true leaders, not believing their orders for the Shining Path to lay down its arms.
If Artemio is indeed in the Hullaga region, he may have affiliated himself with local coca growers, as Huallaga Valley is known to produce coca, often for cocaine production.
On September 26, 2006 a news crew from the television show Panorama interviwed Artemio in a jungle base established by Shining Path. They also filmed about 50 Shining Path militants, all of whom were masked. Artemio demanded that the Peruvian government grant amnesty to imprisoned Shining Path members and open a peace dialogue with the remaining Shining Path members. Days after the report, the National Police raided the site where Artemio gave the interview. Some Shining Path members were arrested, but Artemio was not.
Aug 6, 2007
Chairman of the Board
". . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism . . ."
Mao Tse-tung,
Interview with André Malraux,
July 1965
Marxism consists of thousands of truths, but they all boil down to one: It's right to rebel against reactionaries.[1]
---Mao Zedong
a BriGhT pAtH
Shining Path
Communist Party of Peru | |
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Active | 1980 - Present |
Country | Peru |
Allegiance | Maoism |
Branch | The People's Guerrilla Army is the official name of the armed branch of the party. |
Role | Guerrilla warfare |
Size | Probably a few hundred fighters |
Garrison/HQ | Unknown, probably Upper Huallaga Valley |
Nickname | Sendero Luminoso, Shining Path |
Motto | "Long live the People's War," "It is Right to Rebel" |
Colors | Red |
Anniversaries | May 17, 1980 |
Equipment | Small arms and dynamite |
Battles/wars | Internal conflict in Peru |
Commanders | |
Current commander | Comrade Artemio |
Notable commanders | Abimael Guzmán (imprisoned) Óscar Ramírez (imprisoned) |
Insignia | |
Identification symbol | Hammer and sickle |
Identification symbol | Initials "PCP" |
The Communist Party of Peru (Spanish: El Partido Comunista del Perú), more commonly known as the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), is a Maoist guerrilla organization in Peru that launched the internal conflict in Peru in 1980. The more familiar name distinguishes the group from several other Peruvian communist parties with similar names (see Communism in Peru). It originates from a maxim of José Carlos Mariátegui, founder of the original Peruvian Communist Party: "El Marxismo-Leninismo abrirá el sendero luminoso hacia la revolución" (“Marxism-Leninism will open the shining path to revolution”).[1] This maxim was featured in the masthead of the newspaper of a Shining Path front group, and Peruvian communist groups are often distinguished by the names of their publications. The followers of the group are generally called senderistas. All documents, periodicals and other materials produced by the organization are signed by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP). Academics refer to them as PCP-SL.
Shining Path's stated goal is to replace Peruvian bourgeois institutions with a communist peasant revolutionary regime, presumably passing first through the Maoist developmental stage of New Democracy. Since the capture of its leader Abimael Guzmán in 1992, it has only been sporadically active.[2] Shining Path's ideology and tactics have been influential on other Maoist insurgent groups, notably the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and other Revolutionary Internationalist Movement-affiliated organizations.
Widely condemned for its brutality, including violence deployed against peasants, trade union organizers, popularly elected officials and the general civilian population[3], Shining Path is on the U.S. Department of State's "Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations" list.[4] Peru, the European Union[5], and Canada[6] likewise regard Shining Path as a terrorist group and prohibit providing funding or other financial
Shining Path was founded in the late 1960s by former university philosophy professor Abimael Guzmán (referred to by his followers by his nom de guerre Presidente Gonzalo), whose teachings created the foundation for its militant Maoist doctrine. It was an offshoot of the Communist Party of Peru — Bandera Roja ("red flag"), which in turn split from the original Peruvian Communist Party, a derivation of the Peruvian Socialist Party, founded by José Carlos Mariátegui in 1928.
Shining Path first established a foothold in San Cristóbal of Huamanga University, where Guzmán taught philosophy. The university had recently reopened after being closed for about half a century, and many students of the newly-educated class adopted Shining Path's radical ideology. Between 1973 and 1975, Shining Path gained control of the student councils in the Universities of Huancayo and La Cantuta, and developed a significant presence in the National University of Engineering in Lima and the National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas. Sometime later, it lost many student elections in the universities, including Guzmán's own San Cristóbal of Huamanga, and decided to abandon the universities and reconsolidate itself.
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