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18 Shining Path’s response was as fast as its battered logistical machine would allow. . . has brought us here and leads us to the golden and resplendent communism with a firm and secure hand” (PCP-SL 1992b). By then, however, a second letter had appeared, in which Guzmán not only reaffirmed his request to establish peace talks but also recognized the merits of the self-coup of 5 April 1992. ” Next, the greatest of surprises: And then you come to power. And the facts show that your management has achieved objective advances, especially after the events of 5 April 1992, a situation that was clearly arriving as necessary for the Peruvian state, to which end the foundations for the economic process and for advancing the readjustment of the state have been established; and as far as what concerns us directly, from that date and under your political direction, it has developed a coherent and systematic strategy implemented at various levels, especially in the field of intelligence, achieving real successes, espe cially in the capture of cadres and leaders, including the signatories of this T h e Ye a r s W e L i v e d i n D a n g e r 29 letter, which is evidently the most important success of the Peruvian state under your leadership during these thirteen years of war.
14 In the following months, the captures proceeded in rapid succession. At the end of 1992, nineteen of a total of twenty-two members of Shining Path’s Central Committee were in prison. ” After the speech he was taken to a high security prison to spend the remainder of his life. Defending the Life and Well-Being of Presid ent Gonz alo As proof of their stubborn political will, by early 1993 the national leadership of Shining Path had been rebuilt to some degree.
But, I reiterate, the principal thing was to make them under stand that we were a hard bone to chew, and that we were ready to do anything, anything. 7 However, while Shining Path was boasting that “the party has a thousand eyes and a thousand ears” and knew where and who to hit, the military engaged in blind repression. As a result, in many parts of Ayacucho, the contradictions between Shining Path and the peasantry that had started to surface at the end of 1982 were deferred.