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  Carta Natal de ABIMAEL Guzman
Abimael was the creator of the terrorist group peruvian "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path), that devastate to Peru during the decade of 80, and years of 90.
Abimael had been educated in the famous School the Salle of Arequipa and continued its studies in the University of Arequipa where I graduate in Philosophy, compatible race with Sagitario, besides to exert teaching in this establishment.
Abimael knows to reunite and to activate its reserves easily to be able and applies in situations critics to them with which it revolutionizes the social structures of the town.
www.siderum.com /abimaelIng.htm   (1401 words)

  
 Sendero File - Capture of Abimael Guzman - October 1992 / g c i 275
On the second floor, policemen found a bearded, casually dressed man with a distinct air of a university professor.
It was Abimael Guzmán, 57, Sendero's supreme leader and the most wanted man in Peru for more than a decade.
The capture of Abimael Guzmán raises as many questions about Sendero Luminoso's 12-year insurgency and the future of Peru as it provides answers about the short-term viability of the Lima government.
www.gci275.com /peru/sf4.shtml   (5066 words)

  
 Peru rebels to hear verdicts on charges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Guzman was known to his followers as "Presidente Gonzalo," inspiring a cultlike obedience among a Maoist guerrilla insurgency that grew to 10,000 armed fighters.
By the time Guzman called for peace talks a year after his 1992 arrest, turning the tide of the insurgency _ guerrilla violence had displaced at least 600,000 people and caused an estimated $22 billion in damage.
The lawyer said Guzman was "tranquil" in the face of a near-certain guilty verdict.
www.quepasa.com /english/news/latinamerica/525912.html   (734 words)

  
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Abimael Guzman's terrorist group, Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path as it is known in English, has shaken Peru's fragile democracy, and has instilled fear in every Peruvian.
Abimael Guzman is called the Fourth Sword of Marxism and considered infallible by his fanatical followers.
Guzman's capture has destroyed this myth and revealed this man for what he is: a narcoterrorist and a petty would-be tyrant.
www.fas.org /irp/congress/1992_cr/s921002-terror.htm   (1112 words)

  
 RW ONLINE:7th IEC Delegation to Peru Needed
Abimael Guzmán is the leader of the People's War in Peru that began in 1980.
Abimael Guzmán was convicted by a military tribunal in a summary trial before masked, faceless judges.
Abimael Guzmán's last public contact was on September 24, 1992, when the Fujimori regime presented him to the international press in a cage in an attempt to humiliate him.
rwor.org /a/v22/1090-99/1092/iec.htm   (921 words)

  
 Peru: Abimael Guzmán, once more on trial for crimes against humanity
Abimael Guzmán today has the appearance of a pensioner whose gaze has been dimmed by the greyness of so many years, which wipe clean his memory, lending him the absorbed opacity of someone who is pondering the growing void of their very own person.
From within one of the various offshoots that came out of the pro-Chinese communists, all of which claimed as their own the name ‘Communist Party’ and which were, therefore, generally distinguished by their party newspapers – the group known as Sendero Luminoso appeared towards the end of the 1960s.
Reduced to impotence and advancing old age, the rusty and broken ‘fourth sword’ of world revolution, the one-time ‘heir to Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong’, Abimael Guzmán, is today a witness to his gradual defeat and, above all, to the fog of forgetfulness.
www.indexonline.org /en/news/articles/2006/3/peru-abimael-guzm-n-once-more-on-trial-for-c.shtml   (3108 words)

  
 Peru's Shining Path Founder Gets Life, Abimael Guzman’s Communist Vision Sparked Rebellion That Killed Nearly ...
Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, whose messianic communist vision inspired a 12-year rebellion that cost nearly 70,000 lives, was found guilty Friday of aggravated terrorism and sentenced to life in prison.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Guzman was known to his followers as “Presidente Gonzalo,” inspiring a cultlike obedience among a Maoist guerrilla insurgency that grew to 10,000 armed fighters.
Most Peruvians have little sympathy for Guzman, whose followers celebrated bloodshed in songs and slogans that declared blood was necessary to “irrigate” their glorious revolution.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/10/13/world/printable2089563.shtml   (932 words)

  
 Mazaworld - The Shining Path   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Guzman, now commonly known as "President Gonzalo, " and The Shining Path especially sought out and killed people of modest means including teachers, mayors and civic leaders to further their cause.
Abimael Guzman Presidente Gonzalo, with 18 other individuals, is finally going to trial by a Civil Court (as in non-military)on charges of terrorism.
Guzman himself referred to it as a "needed" "massive blow", against his opponents, although he cyncically did say that it was an "excess" for which he was not responsible, since he was hundreds of miles away.
www.mazalien.com /the-shining-path.html   (2087 words)

  
 Peru’s Shining Path founder faces retrial - Americas - MSNBC.com
Abimael Guzman, the founder of Peru’s Shining Path guerrilla movement, right, and Elena Iparraguirre, his cellmate and longtime aide and lover, raise their arms at Guzman's trial in this November 2004 file photo.
Guzman’s lawyer says the 70-year-old former philosophy professor “is aware” that he will receive the same life sentence in the second attempt at a retrial starting Monday and wants the trial to end quickly.
Guzman went into solitary confinement last November and Iparraguirre was transferred to another prison as part of a crackdown that President Alejandro Toledo ordered days after their first retrial degenerated into chaos.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9483092   (858 words)

  
 Abimael Guzmán - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso (Arequipa, 3 de diciembre de 1934), antes profesor de filosofía, fue el líder del Partido Comunista del Perú-Sendero Luminoso, más conocido como Sendero Luminoso, grupo maoístaque ha estado activo en el Perú desde finales de la década de 1970.
La Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación estimó que la guerra civil resultante costó la muerte de aproximadamente setenta mil personas, aproximadamente la mitad de estos en las manos de de Sendero Luminoso y una tercera parte a manos del estado peruano.
Abimael Guzmán y el "pensamiento guía" que sembró terror en Perú
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abimael_Guzm%C3%A1n   (1635 words)

  
 What is APRA?
Guzman participated in the expulsion of the Peace Corps from Peru.
Guzman became leader of the faction after defeating Saturnino Paredes in 1968.
Guzman's impression on the critical social condition in Ayacucho was decisive in helping him to shape his Manichean viewpoint.
social.chass.ncsu.edu /slatta/hi216/documents/guzman.htm   (1721 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Peru at odds over Shining Path sentences
But Guzman and Iparraguirre also have their supporters, who believe they have been treated harshly.
It says for various legal reasons, it would have been impossible to sentence all the defendants to life, and that they will all have to serve three quarters of their sentence before being considered for parole.
The editorial concludes that although the sentences may appear excessive to some, "we must not forget we are dealing with the leaders of a dogmatic and violent sect responsible for the deaths of thousands of Peruvians".
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/6052720.stm   (630 words)

  
 IEC-US: Intl Emergency Cmte to Defend the Life of Dr Abimael Guzman
In all of these meetings the Peruvian officials had to acknowledge that there were no legal grounds to deny Dr. Abimael Guzman direct contact with his lawyers...
Abimael Guzmán (aka Chairman Gonzalo) is the captured Chairman of the Communist Party of Peru which has led a revolutionary armed struggle since 1980 against the mountains of oppression weighing upon the Peruvian people: imperialism, especially U.S. imperialism; semi-feudalism in the countryside, which keeps the poor peasants landless and brutally oppressed; and bureaucrat-capitalism.
here was recognition among people of different viewpoints that Abimael Guzmán is a leader of millions of Peru's "wretched of the earth," and that defending his life meant defending their hopes and struggles.
www.csrp.org /iec.htm   (1190 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Whereas Abimael Guzman is the leader of the Maoist communist, terrorist group known as Shining Path;
Whereas Abimael Guzman was captured by the members of the Peruvian Counter-Terrorism National Directorate of the Technical Police of the Government of Peru on September 12, 1992;
Whereas the capture of Abimael Guzman and several of his immediate subordinates represents an important victory for the Government of Peru in the fight of that government against terrorism and international narcotics trafficking;
www.fas.org /irp/congress/1992_cr/h921002-terror.htm   (477 words)

  
 International Law Blog Renee Dopplick - Maoist Shining Path Leader Abimael Guzmán Sentenced Again to Life
Fourteen years after a secret military tribunal sentenced Maoist Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán to life imprisonment in October 1992, a Peruvian civilian anti-terrorist court on Friday handed down the same life sentence.
The Peruvian government arrested Abimael Guzmán and either other Shining Path leaders on September 12, 1992 in a house in Lima, Peru.
When the Constitutional Court declared Fujimori's anti-terrorism decrees unconstitutional in 2003, the judiciary granted Guzman and other rebel leaders the opportunity for retrials.
www.insidejustice.com /law/index.php/intl/2006/10/14/peru_guzman   (1926 words)

  
 Abimael Guzmán - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, also known by his nom de guerre Presidente Gonzalo (English: President Gonzalo), a former professor of philosophy, was the leader of the Maoist insurgency often referred coloquially to as "Shining Path" (Sendero Luminoso in Spanish).
In 1992, during the first administration of democratically elected President Alberto Fujimori, the National Directorate Against Terrorism (DINCOTE) began casing several residences in Lima because agents suspected that terrorists were using them as safehouses.
The second is the ex-Security Minister responsible for building this prison to house Guzman: Vladimiro Montesinos, the lawyer and right hand of former President Alberto Fujimori.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abimael_Guzm%C3%A1n   (1732 words)

  
 Abimael Guzman, the brutal, Maoist leader of Shining Path, the Peruvian revolutionary group once so strong, is standing ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Abimael Guzman, the brutal, Maoist leader of Shining Path, the Peruvian revolutionary group once so strong, is standing trial in Lima National Review - Find Articles
Abimael Guzman, the brutal, Maoist leader of Shining Path, the Peruvian revolutionary group once so strong, is standing trial in Lima.
As the Associated Press reported, "Guzman, a 70- year-old former philosophy professor, said he was a leader of the Communist party, not a terrorist." Thought you would like to know that.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_20_57/ai_n15893125   (152 words)

  
 Abimael Guzman - Images and Biography
Abimael Guzman, arrested by Peruvian police in 1992 and sentenced to life imprisonment for treason, has been the single most dangerous threat to the government of Peru since 1980.
He is the founder of the notorious Shining Path, the Marxist rebels who continue to plague Peru even after their leader's arrest.
In part, their continuing existence is due to Guzman, who organized the group into cells that could work independently, if necessary.
www.kevo.com /profile/abimaelguzman   (286 words)

  
 IEC: Dr. Abimael Guzmán's "Speech from a Cage"
Abimael Guzmán (aka Chairman Gonzalo) gave on September 24, 1992 days after his capture.
He made this speech from a cage during a "press conference" orchestrated by the Peruvian regime for over 200 international journalists (photo top-right).
Guzmán defied the regime's attempt to humiliate him and instead delivered a powerful speech which was heard around the planet.
www.csrp.org /speech.htm   (1074 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Shining Path Founder Abimael Guzman to Wed - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | ...
Abimael Guzman proposed marriage last fall and will wed his second-in-command Elena Iparraguirre on an unknown date, Iparraguirre told Caretas magazine this week.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Guzman, 72, inspired a cultlike obedience among his Maoist guerrilla insurgency which grew to 10,000 armed fighters.
The rebels sowed fear across the country, blowing up bridges and factories, assassinating public officials and activists and massacring villagers — including 69 peasants shot and hacked to death in the village of Lucanamarca.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,270456,00.html   (539 words)

  
 Sendero Luminoso and the Trauma of Peru / g c i 275
As a Maoist terrorist organization that has been trying to overthrow the Peruvian state since 1980, Sendero has been on the decline since the capture, trial and imprisonment of its founder and leader Abimael Guzmán, or Chairman Gonzalo, as he is known to his followers.
The current situation is that Guzman and his henchmen are serving out their prison terms, but with the prosepct of a new trail before a civilian court.
Since Guzman's capture, supporters created the International Emergency Committee to Defend the Life of Dr. Abimael Guzman (IEC) to raise awareness of his condition as a political prisoner.
www.gci275.com /peru/sendero.shtml   (1555 words)

  
 Abimael Guzmán Reynoso - História de Abimael Guzmán Reynoso
Abimael Guzmán Reynoso - História de Abimael Guzmán Reynoso
Home » História » Terroristas da História » Abimael Guzmán Reynoso
Possuía vários codinomes, mas seu nome de batismo é Abimael Guzmá Reynoso, ele era líder e mentor do Sendero Luminosos (facção clandestina que teve origem no PCP - Partido Comunista Peruano, no final dos anos 60).
www.brasilescola.com /historia/abimael-guzman-reynoso.htm   (245 words)

  
 terrorismfiles.org : Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
Socorro Popular del Peru (People's Aid of Peru)
Former university professor Abimael Guzman formed Sendero Luminoso in the late 1960s, and his teachings created the foundation of SL's militant Maoist doctrine.
In the 1980s, SL became one of the most ruthless terrorist groups in the Western Hemisphere-approximately 30,000 persons have died since Shining Path took up arms in 1980.
www.terrorismfiles.org /organisations/shining_path.html   (294 words)

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