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...rejected political dialogue with Tupac Amaru, insisting that the group was "in extinction." And he seemed nettled by one criticism growing louder as a result of the crisis: that in his impressive but authoritarian crusade to end Peru's long night of guerrilla terrorism--especially the atrocities of the Maoist-inspired Shining Path--he has ended up exacerbating the poverty and human-rights abuses that helped spawn rebellion in the first place...
Tupac Amaru has always been something of a poor cousin to Peru's most infamous terrorist group, the Maoist-inspired Shining Path, which nearly succeeded in its violent bid to topple the Peruvian state in the early 1990s. Smaller than its notorious rival, Tupac Amaru drew inspiration not from China but from Cuba, and recruits from the countrys farthest shantytowns of the dispossessed poor. The organization's name has a bloody history. It first belonged to the nephew and heir of Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533. Tupac Amaru (which means "Royal Serpent" in Quechua...
...China Blues (Anchor Books). Jan Wong, the privileged daughter of Chinese-Canadian parents in Montreal, became a true-believing Maoist and decided in 1972 to return to the land of her ancestors. The journey was bumpy and led to disillusionment--and also to this lively and shrewd reminiscence. Wong still loves China, but she can laugh at it and her youthful enthusiasms...
...reflexive rebellion of the early '70s or on her loving parents' exasperating prosperity (they owned several Chinese restaurants in Montreal). For whatever reasons, including that she was "pretty damn spoiled," 19-year-old Jan Wong, until then a dutiful daughter, reconstituted herself as a true-believing Maoist...
Anything could happen. Tenured faculty in love beads distributed Maoist literature in the Square; a white-haired gentleman known only as "Mr. A. Nony Mous" took countless cryptic full-page ads in The Crimson to promote a cause he called "All Students for a Goodness Society," a sectlike group of protesters from Columbia Teachers College stage a nude-in in a House laundry room...