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Sendero Luminoso: Resurgence of Political Ideology or Drug Lords in Sendero Luminoso Clothing? From the beginning of Spanish Conquests in Latin America the fundamental problems of ethnic diversity and economic disparity have created a culture that is prime breeding ground for guerrillas/terrorists. In Peru we are seeing the resurgence of one such group- Sendero Luminoso or The Shining Path. Since 1980 the U. S. State department estimates that Sendero Luminoso is responsible for 30,000 deaths. Sendero was founded in 1970 by a college professor Abimael Guzman and reached a stren