From The Washington Post:
Our chariot on this particular journey looked particularly uninspiring.
"Maybe we should find a truck?" I asked our driver, Willy.
In front of me, parked alongside the central plaza of the Peruvian mountain town of Ayacucho, was an unimposing and none too new Toyota station wagon, with four impressively bald tires.
"It's fine," Willy said.
We set off. The purpose of this excursion was to explore the territory of the Shining Path, the communist rebel group whose guerrillas have resumed fighting the Peruvian military. We would not find them. Neither, it seems, does anyone else who goes looking. Perhaps the most basic reason the Shining Path has been able to survive for 28 years and counting is that they are so hard to get to. Forget the mines and booby traps and tunnels, or the dense jungle or constant cloud-cover, there seems no better defense than these roads.
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Our chariot on this particular journey looked particularly uninspiring.
"Maybe we should find a truck?" I asked our driver, Willy.
In front of me, parked alongside the central plaza of the Peruvian mountain town of Ayacucho, was an unimposing and none too new Toyota station wagon, with four impressively bald tires.
"It's fine," Willy said.
We set off. The purpose of this excursion was to explore the territory of the Shining Path, the communist rebel group whose guerrillas have resumed fighting the Peruvian military. We would not find them. Neither, it seems, does anyone else who goes looking. Perhaps the most basic reason the Shining Path has been able to survive for 28 years and counting is that they are so hard to get to. Forget the mines and booby traps and tunnels, or the dense jungle or constant cloud-cover, there seems no better defense than these roads.
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