Suchergebnisse

Este reportaje resulta de dos anos de trabajo de campo, recorriendo las rondas de Cajamarca, asistiendo a sus reuniones, presenciando juicios, conversando con dirigentes y con simples ronderos. Se destaca como las rondas campesinas contribuyen a la transformacion del estado peruano y a su modernizacion

The train to Machu Picchu -- A tree can be a weapon -- Comrade Norah -- The great rupture -- First blood -- The lynching -- Inquest in the Andes -- Shouting in the rocks -- The Queen of Villa -- The shining trench -- The Party Congress -- The death of Comrade Norah -- The revolution comes to Villa -- A fish out of water -- Ghostbusters -- The clever frog -- The birthday party -- A death foretold -- The wolf and the whale -- Fat cheeks, affirmative! -- The silence of the lambs.

AbstractFrom the moment it launched its armed insurgency in 1980 until the death of its former leader in September 2021, Peru's Shining Path mesmerized observers. The Maoist group had a well-established reputation as a personality cult whose members were fanatically devoted to Abimael Guzmán, the messianic leader they revered as "Presidente Gonzalo." According to this narrative, referred to here as the "Gonzalo mystique," Shining Path zealots were prepared to submit to Guzmán's authority and will—no matter how violent or suicidal—because they viewed him as a messiah-prophet who would usher in a new era of communist utopia. Drawing on newly available sources, including the minutes of Shining Path's 1988–1989 congress, this article complicates the Gonzalo mystique narrative, tracing the unrelenting efforts by middle- and high-ranking militants to challenge, undermine, disobey, and even unseat Guzmán throughout the insurgency. Far from seeing their leader as the undisputed cosmocrat of the popular imagination, these militants recognized Guzmán for who he was: a deeply flawed man with errant ideas, including a dubious interpretation of Maoism, problematic military strategy, and a revolutionary path that was anything but shining.