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Abimael Guzmán
Abimael Guzmán was a Peruvian philosophy professor who founded and led the Maoist Shining Path, known to his followers as Chairman Gonzalo. From the University of Huamanga in Ayacucho he prepared an armed struggle, launched in May 1980, that brought Peru close to collapse and cost tens of thousands of lives. He was captured in Lima in September 1992 and died in prison in 2021, serving a life sentence.
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