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Sendero

By: Gustavo Gorriti
Narrated by: Guerci Genar Contreras Fernández
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Ningún conflicto armado ha estremecido al Perú tanto como el que provocó Sendero Luminoso: casi setenta mil peruanos muertos en la peor década de violencia interna de la que el país tiene registro. Sendero es un libro extraordinario, que revela y esclarece cómo se gestó una de las insurrecciones a la vez más letales y misteriosas en América Latina.

Con un brillante trabajo que combina el periodismo de investigación y la historiografía de guerra, Gorriti descubre los orígenes de la violencia senderista y escribe esta historia imprescindible para entender el Perú, durante el período mismo de la guerra. Publicado por primera vez en 1990, Sendero alumbró mediante la profusión de documentos y la precisión al detalle, lograda a través de años de cobertura y centenares de entrevistas, a los personajes, los guiones y los hechos de una lucha interna que destruía desde las sombras.

En la historia de las insurrecciones armadas, pocos libros han descrito con tanta precisión su complejo inicio: Cuando una organización violenta, en apariencia extraña y ajena al continente y al momento histórico, fuerza su presencia sobre una sociedad renuente, una democracia precaria y un Estado contradictorio.

Años después de su primera edición, este libro se ha convertido en la referencia fundamental para entender la génesis de la violencia en un país de América latina que, como muchos otros, aún padece de una inmensa fractura social.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

©2018 Gustavo Gorriti (P)2020 Planeta Perú

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A hard focus on the genesis period of Shining Path

This book focuses on the roots of SL and the ideological development that occurred in the period between 1980 and roughly 85/86. This period also coincided with the government of Belaunde, the first democratically elected president of Peru after the leftist military regime that ruled from 1968-1980. Gorriti spends time looking back at the culture within the military regime and how this created a climate which was uniquely hospitable to create a response from political agents which didn’t feel co-opted into the legitimate political arena. Moreover the boom intimates that these elements did not want to be co-opted. Much time is spent on the ideological development and the role of Guzman. The development of a cult like following is also drawn dramatically and so is the civilian government’s ineptness at meeting the increasingly violent challenges. Too bad the book doesn’t continue into the years of Fujimori. Very good summary.

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Buen audiolibro

Fue una buena reseña, de los inicios de la violencia armada que vivio el Peru en los años 80

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