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Peruvian Terrorist Leader Dies in Prison; Archbishop Urges Prayers for His Soul

ANDINAAbimael Guzmán after his capture in 1992.

Guzmán founded Shining Path in the 1960s on communist principles, and began an armed conflict in 1980 with the goal of stoking a peasant revolution that would gain control of the Peruvian countryside, and eventually the cities.