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The year 1980 was seminal in Peru’s political history. Citizens elected a president for the first time in more than a decade. The new constitution allowed illiterate citizens and 18-year-olds to vote for the first time ever. And a new social movement known as Shining Path held a rare plenum of its Central Committee that, among other things, adopted the slogan “Initiate the armed struggle.”
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© 2006 Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh
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Zirakzadeh, C.E. (2006). Diverse Directions along the Shining Path. In: Social Movements in Politics. Perspectives in Comparative Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983336_10
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