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646 B
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President of Peru who declared martial law in Ayacucho in 1980 due to the growing influence of the Shining Path Maoist terrorist group. | 1949-05-23 | 2019-04-17 | Lima, Peru |
Alan Garcia was the President of Peru. In 1980, he declared the department of Ayacucho under martial law due to the growing influence of the Shining Path, a Maoist terrorist group led by Abimael Guzman Reynoso.1
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩︎