While We're Looking Elsewhere
By Frank Hyland
Once declared "finished" by the Government of Peru, its leaders imprisoned, its ranks reduced greatly in numbers, Peru's Sendero Luminoso (SL) ("Shining Path") has been percolating along, preserving its options and taking in revenues. As did Colombia's FARC before it, SL has reinvented itself as a drug-related operation, both providing protection for full-time purveyors and producing and processing Cocaine in areas under its control. The danger for Peru -- and for others, including the US -- is that SL will be the subject of derision while it continues to grow into a state within a state, metasticizing into a threat that will be, at the very least, vastly more difficult to combat.
The full article may be viewed on the Jamestown Foundation's website.
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