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PERUVIAN GANGS AND CRIME
General Information
Shining Path
Shining Path, MPCP, PCP-SL, Militarized Communist Party of Peru, Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Gonzalo Thought
Dissolved: June 2018 (de facto)
Fragments: rebels are thought to work with traffickers in the VRAEM region
Founded: 1969; launched its war against the state in 1980
Founder: Abimael Guzmán - captured 1992 - (notice the 1960s China, cultural revolution connection)
Born in 1934 into a middle-class family, Guzman visited China many times in the 1960s during the cultural revolution there,
abandoning his job as a philosophy professor to launch the Shining Path. (See Barron’s)
He became a near messianic leader of the Shining Path and his capture in 1992 marked the beginning of the end of a
movement that at its height had some 5,000 fighters.
Later Leader: Comrade Artemio (Florindo Eleuterio Flores) captured 2012
Atrocities: group blamed for tens of thousands of deaths.
Earlier Peruvian Communist Leader: José Carlos Mariátegui
MSX3
InSight Crime @InSightCrime Tweet
Peru's "MSX3" gang appears to be a spinoff of Central America's feared MS13
https://goo.gl/5gmH7K
Illegal gold trade/mining, money laundering, human trafficking, drug trafficking-foreign-cocaine
Known trafficking: Colombia, Mexico, Europe, Asia, The US, other countries Gangs: Brazil, ‘Ndrangheta,
Insight Crime dot org
https://insightcrime.org/peru-organized-crime-news/peru/
Excerpt: The Shining Path guerrilla group launched its war against the state in 1980, and is now deeply involved in organized
crime. While the drug trade helped strengthen the group, in recent years it has been severely weakened by the deaths and
arrests of a number of its top leaders. The rebels are thought to work with traffickers in the VRAEM region. This is the
group’s last remaining stronghold after it was pushed out of the Alto Huallaga region following the 2012 capture of Florindo
Eleuterio Flores, alias “Comrade Artemio.” Local Peruvian trafficking groups share their territory with foreign drug
trafficking organizations, including Colombian and Mexican criminal groups. These maintain sophisticated cocaine
trafficking networks to Europe, Asia, the United States and other countries. Local traffickers are also known to have links
with other transnational criminal groups, including Brazilian gangs and Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta…Mining regions are also a hub of
human trafficking, for both forced labor and sexual exploitation. The illegal gold trade has also been tied to money
laundering involving a US-based company with offices in Miami and Dallas. In 2017, Peru officially declared illegal mining an
organized crime activity and launched a program to tackle it, including through massive police operations.
https://insightcrime.org/peru-organized-crime-news/
[The crime news section covers various topics]
Violence in Peru has been relatively low since the end of its civil conflict in the late 1990s. Although it remains the world’s
top coca producer behind Colombia, illicit cultivations in the country are decreasing. Profits from drug trafficking and illegal
logging have fueled a small resurgence of the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group that no longer poses a major threat to
the stability of the Peruvian state, but which continues to attack security forces and foreign companies in the remote
Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro River
https://insightcrime.org/peru-organized-crime-news/
https://insightcrime.org/peru-organized-crime-news/shining-path-profile
PERU / 23 MAY 2021 BY INSIGHT CRIME EN. ES. The Shining Path or the Militarized Communist Party of Peru (Militarizado
Partido Comunista de Peru - MPCP) is the last remnant of Peru’s guerrilla movement from the end of the 20th Century.
Altho…
History
The Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL), was formed in 1970 as a breakaway faction from the Peruvian Communist
Party (PCP). It had only …
Wikipedia
The Shining Path (Spanish: Sendero Luminoso), officially the Communist Party of Peru (Partido Comunista del Perú, abbr. PCP), is a
communist guerrilla group in Peru following Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Gonzalo Thought.
When it first launched the internal conflict in Peru in 1980, its goal was to overthrow the government through guerrilla warfare
and replace it with a New
Barrons
https://www.barrons.com/news/shining-path-peru-s-guerrilla-group-all-but-defeated-01632495909
Local traffickers linked to Brazilian gangs and Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta; Mining with human trafficking
Illegal gold trade-money laundering
“Comrade Artemio.” 2012 capture
2022
Shark Fin Traffickers
Insight Crime dot org
2022/02/14 What Will Come of Peru Jailing Shark Fin Traffickers for First Time?
ECUADOR Peru has convicted a gang of shark fin traffickers for the first time in history but more is needed to make a dent
in this prolific illegal industry. …
https://insightcrime.org/news/what-will-come-of-peru-jailing-shark-fin-traffickers-for-first-time/
Peruvian Brothers-Defrauding Thousands of Spanish Speaking Immigrants
Justice dot gov
2022/02/14 Peruvian Brothers Sentenced to More than Seven Years in Prison for Defrauding Thousands of Spanish-
Speaking Immigrants
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/peruvian-brothers-sentenced-more-seven-years-prison-defrauding-thousands-spanish-
speaking
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-peruvian-nationals-plead-guilty-conspiring-defraud-thousands-spanish-speaking-us
2021
Covid-19 vaccine related
Vacunagate-Chinese lab Sinopharm-high death rates
NPR
2021/11/27 Peru has the world's highest COVID death rate. Here's why. Jason Beaubien
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/27/1057387896/peru-has-the-worlds-highest-covid-death-rate-heres-
why
CNN
2021/02/16 Hundreds of people were secretly vaccinated in Peru before official rollout, says President. Claudia Rebaza
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/americas/peru-sinopharm-secret-vaccines-intl/index.html
Corrupt bid problem
Telesurenglish.net
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Peru-SevenSenior-Officials-ArrestedDue-To-Vacunagate-Case-20210221-0006.html
Former officials are accused of favoring the Chinese lab "Sinopharm" vaccine, to the detriment of better bids. Peru's anti-
corruption prosecutor Yudith Villegas Espinoza on Sunday called for the arrest of seven former members of the Executive
Multi-sectorial Commission, involved in the scandal over COVID-19 secret vaccination "Vacunagate." The seven former
officials are accused of the alleged crime of incompatible negotiation for favoring the Chinese vaccine's purchase, even
when there were other offers with better effectiveness and price, such as Sputnik V or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines. The
Executive's Multi-sectorial Commission demanded an impartial purchase recommendation from these officials, which was
compromised after their secret vaccination before concluding the contract.
Logging, Amazon Forest
Insight Crime Game Changers 2021
2021/12/28 How Organized Crime Devoured the Amazon Rainforest
https://insightcrime.org/news/gamechangers-2021-organized-crime-devoured-amazon-rainforest/
Drug Trafficking and Illegal Logging
Mongabay
2021/08 Drug trafficking and illegal logging threaten Indigenous communities in Peru
by Gloria Alvitres on 26 August 2021 | Translated by Sydney Sims
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/drug-trafficking-and-illegal-logging-threaten-indigenous-communities-in-peru/
Sea and Port Corruption which includes Peru
Insight Crime
2021/02/20 Hide and Seek: How Drug Traffickers Get Creative at Sea. Katie Jones
https://insightcrime.org/news/hide-and-seek-drug-traffickers-creative-at-sea/
2019
Mongabay dot com
2019/07/19 Corrupt police caught in bust of Peruvian Amazon drug gang. Bethan John
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/corrupt-police-caught-in-bust-of-peruvian-amazon-drug-gang/
OLDER Peru Gang Material
2015
Fox
2015/12/04 American woman returns home after spending years in Peruvian jail
https://www.foxnews.com/world/american-woman-returns-home-after-spending-years-in-peruvian-jail
NEW YORK – An American woman sentenced to 20 years in a Peru prison for conspiring with a leftist rebel group in the
1990s returned to New York on Thursday, smiling as she walked through the doors at Kennedy Airport with her uncle. Lori
Berenson, 46, has been living quietly in Lima with her 6-year-old son since her 2010 parole because she was barred from
leaving the country until her sentenced lapsed. Her son, Salvador, left the airport earlier with his grandparents.
2013
CNN dot com
2013/02/20 Peru gang targets people stuck in traffic
https://edit ion.cnn.com/2013/02/20/world/americas/peru-traffic-gang-crime/index.html
2012
Insight Crime
2012/11
Homemade Guns Point to Peru's Gang Struggles
As InSight Crime has reported, Peru's government has said there are a total of 13,000 gang members inside the country, compared
to an estimated 14,000 gang members in Guatemala and 10,500 in El Salvador, both of which have much smaller populations than
Peru.
Homemade Guns Point to Peru's Gang Struggles - InSight Crime
insightcrime.org/news/brief/homemade-guns-point-to-perus-gang-struggles/
2011
Gangs of Peru Continued… Street Level – Los Pandillas, Malditos de Castilla, Bandas, Los Alamos, Latin Kings, Los Diablos,
Cirujanos, La Muralla, and Los Pishtakos are some of the more famous Peruvian Street gangs. Youth Gangs (Street Children) -
Pájaro frutero, and pirañitas.
Author: Michael McCoy
Created Date: 06/21/2011 11:20:18
Title: Gang Violence in Central and Southern America
Gang Violence in Central and Southern America
homepages.wmich.edu/~pciccant/gangs11.pptx
2010
Coca shifts from Colombia to Peru
As Coca Fight Succeeds In Colombia, Production Shifts To Peru
Coca cultivation is surging in Peru, making the country a contender to surpass Colombia as the world’s largest exporter of cocaine,
reports the New York Times. The increase offers a window into one of the most vexing aspects of the American-financed war
against drugs in Latin America, which began in earnest four decades ago.
June 15, 2010 | https://thecrimereport.org/2010/06/15/as-coca-fight-succeeds-in-colombia-production-shifts-to-peru/
2009
Human Fat - Gangs - Case -2009
An Old Gang (Pishtaco) Human Fat from murdered corpses Issue (Watch for related trends even in the current erea)
Homicides in Peru - Human Fat Taken From Victims
CBS
2009/11/20 Peruvian Gang Killing People, Selling Human Fat to Cosmetics Companies, Say Cops. Sammy Saltzman
2009/11/20--https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peruvian-gang-killing-people-selling-human-fat-to-cosmetics-companies-say-
cops/
Street Gangs dot com
2009/11/21 Peruvian gang sold human fat to European cosmetic firms
from Deutsche Welle
November 21, 2009
https://www.streetgangs.com/news/112109_peruviangang/
2000
Peru Gangs
The term "gang" is found in reference to youth and neighbourhood gangs, known in Peru as pandillas or bandas juveniles, and in
reference to organized groups of armed criminals commonly known simply as bandas or organized crime groups. Regarding the
latter, the Human Rights Watch World Report 1999 reports:
Citation / Document Symbol: PER33879.E
Publication Date: 23 March 2000
Refworld | Peru: Gangs in Lima and persons targeted by ...
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PERUVIAN GANGS AND GENERAL INPUT ON CRIME CASE STUDY
Comment: This is a Latin American country that had a strong Marxist-communist-
socialist influence, among them The Shinging Path gang/organized crime
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Gangs:
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The Shining Path - progression to organized crime
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Abimael Guzmán
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Comrade Artemio (Florindo Eleuterio Flores)
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MSX3 possible spinoff of MS13
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Peruvian Political Leaders
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José Carlos Mariátegui
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Topics
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More Recent 2019-2022
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Pharmaceutical Related, COVID
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Secret early vaccines in Peru
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Vacunagate - Chinese lab Sinopharm
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General Info: Peru COVID death rate alleged “highest”
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2022
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Defrauding Spanish Speaking Immigrants - 3 brothers
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Shark Fin Traffickers
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2021
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Logging, drug trafficking, indigenous people-Peru
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in general - Latin America
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Sea port and ship related smuggling which includes Peru
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good itemized list of compromise-likely areas of ship
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2019
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Corrupt police caught in bust of Peruvian Amazon drug gang.
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‘Ndrangheta -Italy gangs - linked to Peruvian gangs
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Brzail gangs - linked to Peruvian gangs
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Older
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2013 People stuck in traffic attacked
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2012 Homemade Guns
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2011 list of gangs
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2010 Coca shifts from Colombia to Peru
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2009 Human Fat - Gangs 2009 Kidnappings, Homicides