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I see a parallel with Shining Path.
The Party, (Shining Path is actually a misnomer, the actual correct name of the organization is the Communist Party of Peru) was once geographically focused in the department of Ayacucho in the highlands of Peru.
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Not so. The Partido and the SL are two different entities. The PC del P was founded in 1928 and like most LATAM PCs, follows Leninist-Marxist doctrine.
SL was founded in the late '60s by Guzman et al and is or at least was Maoist in orientation.
The two were very often at odds with each other over the appropriate ways to advance the revolution. Much like Che didn't get on very well with the old traditional PCs in Latin America and was eventually ruined by the PC de Bolivia.
Very rarely do the old men with cigars of the traditional partidos coministas advocate radical and violent means. It upsets their incomes.