The Shining Path: The History of Peru's Revolutionary Communist Party and the Ongoing Civil War

On the evening of May 17, 1980, a day before the Peruvian electorate, the most representative in the nation's history, was due to go to the polls for the first authentic presidential election since 1963, a curious thing happened. In the tiny mountain town of Chuschi, little more than a hamlet nestled in a valley on the western slopes of the Andes, a group of armed youth broke the lock on the town hall and removed all of the ballot boxes, papers and voting lists prepared for the following da...