POL305Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Shining Path, Alberto Fujimori
Document Summary
Joined guerrilla movements as a response to the failure of peaceful protest and to attempting changing through parliamentary measures. The example of cuba arms could bring change where other methods had changed. Us poured billions into economic aid into el salvador. Us perceptions that fmln revolutionaries tougher would implement a cuba style revolution. Us trying to make an example out of el salvador. Radio vencemeros a key voice for the fmln. But some elements supported a negotiated solution condemned the atrocities committed by both sides. Called for a popular uprising hoping to win a military victory. Variety of governments democratic civilian, military autocratic. First serious attempt at negotiation by newly eelected president duartes. 75, 000 people dead, and a million people displaced. 1980 shining path first took up arms. Rejected democracy called for a radical restructuring of peruvian society. High rate of disappearances in the late 1980s. U. s involvement as a part of their war on drugs.
