Abimael Guzmán Quotes

1934–2021

Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso (3 December 1934 – 11 September 2021), also known as Chairman Gonzalo, was the former leader of the Communist Party of Peru Shining Path during the Maoist insurgency known as the internal conflict in Peru. He was captured by the Peruvian government in 1992 and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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The People's War begins to sweep away the old order in order to inevitably destroy it. From the old, the new shall be born.

We Are the Initiators (1980)

We are the initiators and we should keep this fact deeply in our spirits.

We Are the Initiators (1980)

The new is focused in our country, the armed solution, and the Party’s development through arms intensifies through the armed struggle.

Being communists, we fear nothing.

Today, tomorrow, and in these stormy decades in which we live, we can see the enormous and overriding importance that proletarian ideology has.

We will become the protagonists of history, conscious, organized and armed. Thus, the great rupture will be open and we will become the makers of a definitive dawn

We Are the Initiators (1980)