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LIMA, Peru (AP) - A cellblock wedding is reportedly in the works for the founder of Peru's Shining Path guerrilla movement, whose 20-year clash with the government left more than 70,000 dead.
Abimael Guzman proposed marriage last fall and will wed his second-in-command Elena Iparraguirre on an unknown date, Iparraguirre told Caretas magazine this week. The longtime lovers are serving life sentences for terrorism in separate prisons.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Guzman, 72, inspired a cultlike obedience among his Maoist guerrilla insurgency which grew to 10,000 armed fighters. The rebels sowed fear across the country, blowing up bridges and factories, assassinating public officials and activists and massacring villagers — including 69 peasants shot and hacked to death in the village of Lucanamarca.
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