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Sinister Cultural Marxist
9th April 2012, 23:36
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17659173


Shining Path rebels kidnap Peru gas workers - reports

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/59567000/jpg/_59567825_014113242-1.jpg The kidnappers are said to be demanding the release of captured rebel leader "Artemio"
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Suspected rebels in Peru are holding seven workers they kidnapped from a natural gas project, reports say.
The Shining Path rebels are demanding the release of captured leader "Artemio" in return for the hostages.
The gunmen initially seized 30 workers on the Camisea natural gas development in the southern region of Cusco, but were later said to have released 23.
Artemio, one of the last leaders of the once-powerful Shining Path movement, was captured in February.
The Maoist group posed a major challenge to the Peruvian state in the 1980s and early 1990s, but is now reduced to small bands involved in cocaine trafficking.
The Camisea project is a major development bringing natural gas from the Amazon across the Andes to consumers throughout Peru.
The workers were seized in a remote jungle region not far from the Apurimac-Ene valley - one of the last strongholds of the Shining Path.
They are reported to be employees of the company Skanska, which services Peru's main natural gas pipeline.


Kidnapping workers is not traditionally seen as a good way of building the power of the working class ...

Geiseric
10th April 2012, 00:07
funny story, my spanish teacher had his car blown up by them

TheGodlessUtopian
10th April 2012, 00:17
Something tells me the Peruvian state isn't going to hand over a Marxist leader in exchange for workers...

La GuaneƱa
11th April 2012, 02:28
I sure hope there is something more to this. Or these guys are just downright... stupid.

El Oso Rojo
11th April 2012, 05:21
Something tells me the Peruvian state isn't going to hand over a Marxist leader in exchange for workers...

Didn't they voted in some progressive guy named ollenta?

TheGodlessUtopian
11th April 2012, 21:58
Didn't they voted in some progressive guy named ollenta?

I'm not sure, haven't been keeping up with their elections. Even if they did though it won't mean that the exchange will be made. A slightly higher possibility but that till isn't saying much.