Counterinsurgency = Impunity
THE WAR AGAINST SENDERO LUMINOSO HAS become synonymous with the systematic violation of human rights. About half of the nearly ...
GUATEMALA Why They Like Rios Montt
"Horrendous," was the reaction from Americas Watch. "Lure of the Iron Fist," reported the Miami Herald. "The 900-pound gorilla of ...
Fatal Attraction: Peru’s Shining Path
For the third year running, more people have been "disappeared" in Peru than anywhere else in the world. Ten years ...
Women at War
In June of 1986, I meet with a leader of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP), the movement known as ...
TARGETING THE “REVISIONIST” LEFT
IT WAS A FEW MINUTES BEFORE NOON ON APRIL 8, 1987 when a Senderista "annihilation commando" entered San Juan de ...
On the Record
Killer Coca After failing for years to curb South America's coca leaf crops, U.S. offi- cials are weighing proposals by ...
There Is No Other Way” An Interview with Luís Arce Borja
Luis Arce Boraa is the editor of El Diario, a pro-Sendero newspaper published in Lima. He was interviewed in Bel- ...
The Revolution Behind Bars
MOST OF THE YEAR LIMA IS GRAY AND SAD. This is particularly striking at the city's edge because the desert ...
