Abimael guzman reynoso biography of george

Abimael Guzmán Reynoso is the founder and head of the Shining Path guerrilla organization, which launched a people's war on May 17, 1980, that convulsed Peru for twelve years.

The Shining Path declined dramatically after his capture on September 12, 1992.

Abimael guzman reynoso biography of george

He earned degrees in philosophy and law (with theses on the philosopher Immanuel Kant and the bourgeois state) at the University of San Agustín de Arequipa, where he became a member of Peru's Communist Party. He then began teaching in 1962 at the University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga, in Ayacucho, which became his power base.

Once in Ayacucho, he revitalized the local party and developed a strong following among students, many of indigenous origins, as well as some faculty.

There he met university student Augusta de la Torre, daughter of the local Communist Party leader, whom he married in 1964 and who was a member of Shining Path's Central Committee until her mysterious death in 1988. While at the univ