Abimael Guzmán

Abimael Guzmán (also Presidente Gonzalo, born December 3, 1934 in Mollendo ) was the leader of the Maoist terrorist organization " Shining Path " in Peru.

Guzmán studied law and philosophy in Arequipa and was appointed in 1962 as professor of philosophy at the University of Ayacucho. Influenced by the Marxist theory José Carlos Mariáteguis and also by the communist- primitivist ideas of Pol Pot went Guzmán mid-seventies into the ground and was leader of the guerrilla movement " Shining Path " ( Sendero Luminoso ). In the second half of the 1980s and early 1990s, controlled the run of his " Shining Path " large parts of Peru. It was only during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori became the Shining Path increasingly on the defensive. Guzman was finally adopted on September 12, 1992 in Lima and sentenced to life imprisonment. He is in prison on a military base in Callao. In 1993, Guzmán on television for peace between the " Shining Path " and the government, but this was accepted by only a portion of the guerrilla movement.

In May 2004, Guzmán joined with some like-minded people in prison on a hunger strike to protest prison conditions in Peru's prisons.

On October 14, 2006 Guzmán was sentenced to life imprisonment by the National Criminal Court in Lima because of terrorism against the Peruvian government. The same sentence was his partner and vice - chief of the Maoist terrorist organization, Elena Iparraguirre. He also has a fine in the amount of more than € 61,000 pay that goes to the family members of the massacre of Lucanamarca in which 1983 of the Sendero Luminoso 69 peasants killed with machetes, including 20 children.

1993 addressed the American band Rage Against The Machine in their music video for the song Bombtrack the struggle of the " Shining Path " and the detention Guzmán.

2010 married Guzmán his longtime girlfriend Elena Iparraguirre in prison.