Peru’s Boluarte vows to crush “narcoterrorism” after deadly police ambush
Lima, PeruReuters Peruvian President Dina Boluarte pledged a crackdown on “narcoterrorism” on Monday, speaking at the funeral of seven police officers gunned down in an area where drug traffickers operate in alliance with remnants of Shining Path militants. The officers were ambushed on Saturday as they traveled through the remote Andean and jungle region known […]
Traumatic legacy: In Peru’s Andes, Shining Path leader’s death stirs buried memories of terror
MARCELO ROCHABRUN, of Reuters, reports how memories of a traumatic time in the history of Peru have been stirred by the death last week of Abimael Guzman, the professor who founded the Shining Path, while he was serving a life sentence…