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Peru: Shinin
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DATE: 08-03-2010
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Slowly Regrouping
Key Points
Peru's Shining Path, Sendero Luminoso (SL), is attempting to regroup and
strengthen its meager forces, in part with funds from the drug trade. The group does
not have broad popular support and remains in its traditional rural operating areas and
in a few major cities.
? SL does not appear to have a unified strategy. A majority faction focuses on non-
FOIA
