Guerilla Group, Maoist Shining Path, Kills 13 Peruvian Troops in Ayacucho Province April 14, 2009
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Last Thursday, the Peruvian government reported that leftist, militia guerillas where responsible for the deaths of 13 Peruvian army troops while fighting against the cocaine traffickers in the remote mountainous regions of the Ayacucho province. The region is controlled by the military group that calls itself, the Maoist Shining Path, which in recent years has taken on cocaine growing and trafficking.
The Minister of Defense, Antero Flores, told the press that two separate ambushes were staged, in which grenades, heavy artillery, and even dynamite were used against the troops. This latest military attack from the Maoist Shining Path marks the eleventh since January of 2009.
According to government reports, the Maoist Shining Path has strayed quite far off the path from the socialist ideology it held for nearly two decades. Instead, the group now aims to control the coca-growing region by planting themselves firmly as the main drug trafficking entity in the Ayacucho province.
Even though Peruvian President Alan Garcia receives millions in aid from the US government to help fight the drug war in Peru, which is second biggest producer of cocaine in the world after Colombia, it just doesn’t seem like the situation is under control when attacks like those recently committed are prevalent.
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