From the Sierra to the cities: the urban campaign of the Shining Path
by McCormick, Gordon H., United States., Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)., International Security and Defense Strategy Program, Rand Corporation
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The current insurgency in Peru is an expression of a larger, historically based conflict between the traditional societies of the sierra and the modern, Spanish-speaking culture of the coastal plain. This dichotomy, which began with the Spanish conquest, has played a powerful ro…