In 1992, the capture of a philosophy professor ended a decade of insurgency in Peru
The decade-long reign of the Shining Path insurgency in Peru came to a sudden halt in 1992 when special forces captured a former philosophy professor in a quiet suburban apartment.
Abimael Guzmán was the intellectual architect of the Shining Path, a brutal Maoist group that had pushed Peru to the edge of collapse. Despite his influence, he remained a ghost to authorities for years. In September 1992, an elite intelligence unit tracked him to a dance studio in Lima by noticing discarded tubes of skin cream used for psoriasis, a condition Guzmán was known to have.
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