Abimael Guzman, Founder of Peruvian Terrorist Group Shining Path, Dies at 86

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : He decided to bring Mao Zedong's brand of communism to Peru through a class war that he launched in 1980 on the day that Peru held its first democratic elections following over a decade of military dictatorship.
53% : People in the capital city of Lima got their first taste of the Shining Path in 1981 when guerrillas hung dozens of dead dogs from lampposts -- "the dogs of capitalism," said signs pinned to the animals.

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