Sendero Luminoso

... Chantel Pomerville IB History / Barth IA Rough Draft Sendero Luminoso One of the first, primitive communist societies was the Incan empire. Under strong dictatorial rule and an organized system, the Incas survived centuries in the harsh Andean climate. When faced with Spanish dominance in political and social areas in the 1780's, the people revolted under Tupac Amaru II. The fight against the Spanish continued through the 1800's with major battles in Ayacucho, a place later to be used by the Shining Path, or Sendero Luminoso's leader Abimael Guzman, to spawn the new revolution. The fight for independence continued with José Carlos Mariategui, who founded the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP) in the 1920's. Through the 1960's, peasants formed unions and separate communities from the haciendas of the Catholic Church, and seized land from them (Strong 46-50). Yet, these mini revolts did not survive for long, due to the lack of the peasant's

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