Sendero Luminoso
- proper noun
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Sendero Luminoso
- Situated on the central highway, the route that connects Lima with the Andean regions to the east, Huaycan was strategically important to Sendero Luminoso.
- Sendero Luminoso in Peru
- Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path)
Examples
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Sendero Luminoso took advantage of the increasing discontent and uncertainty, alternatively challenging and negotiating with leaders of the various leftist groups in communities like Huaycan.
Academic text (1999) -
In Peru's struggle against Sendero Luminoso since 1980, it has been simultaneously enduring the Great Depression, the Civil War, and Prohibition (to put it in terms of U.S. historical experiences).
Academic text (2004) -
Their confidence was raised further by the government's sudden turn of good luck in dealing with Sendero Luminoso.
Academic text (1997) -
There was also the ominous presence of Sendero Luminoso, which disapproved of prayer meetings or Bible study.
Academic text (1999) -
The Sendero Luminoso launched a large-scale night attack on the police station in Uchiza, the major population center of the mid-UHV (Gonzales, 1992: 112-113).
Academic text (1992) -
This is the lugubrious context, then, in which to present and analyze Peru's drug production and trafficking and the insurgency of the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso).
Academic text (1992) -
In the 1980s, Sendero Luminoso launched a violent campaign against the Peruvian government, aiming to establish a Maoist regime.
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Many regions of Peru were affected by the insurgency and terrorism perpetrated by the guerrilla organization Sendero Luminoso.
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The Peruvian army has been engaged in a long struggle against Sendero Luminoso, a group notorious for its extreme violence.
Synonyms
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A violent communist rebel group in Peru that used terror against people
Surface Forms
Morphology
Sendero + Luminoso
Although the phrase literally translates from Spanish as something like 'luminous' or 'shining path', that literal meaning does not indicate a Maoist guerrilla organization or violent insurgency. As a language-specific proper name for a political group, its referent and associated meaning cannot be derived from the constituent words, so it is opaque to learners who only know the parts.
Etymology
Sendero Luminoso comes from the Spanish words sendero and luminoso, literally 'shining path'. The group's leaders chose this bright, hopeful image to show a clear road to 'revolution', so today the words name the Maoist guerrilla group in Peru.