Las rondas campesinas y la derrota de Sendero Luminoso

By Carlos Iván Degregori

Subjects: Peasantry, Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group), Societies, Political activity, Peasants

Description: "Detailed, fieldwork-based analysis of Shining Path and its defeat in the Ayacucho region. Highlights the importance of guerrilla insensitivity to local realities and resulting peasant alienation, as well as the crucial role of local organized responses by peasant self-defense groups and evangelical Protestant churches. Major contribution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.