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Originally Posted by SF_BHT
The Maoist Shining Path once boasted 10,000 fighters and rocked the capital with nearly daily car bombings before fading after the capture of its founder in 1992. Officials say the guerrillas number about 500 today and survive through drug trafficking.
The attacks in Sanabamba, 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of the capital, Lima, are the deadliest since October, when 13 soldiers and two civilians were ambushed and killed while transporting dynamite in Huancavelica.
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B,
Thank You for posting this! Read about
them prior to my visit, and have some family friends going next month...will caution!
Be Safe down there B, and Keep Up The Fight!
Holly