ALMOST TIME TO LEAVE

 ALMOST TIME TO LEAVE - an excerpt

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My apartment was in the basement. While living there, I learned that World Vision, an organization through which I had adopted a little girl, had left Peru due to the terrorizing activities of the Sendero Luminoso, or The Shining Path in English. The Shining Path is officially the Communist Party of Peru.

Sendero Luminosa was widely condemned for its excessive brutality, including violence against peasants. It was also violent toward trade union organizers, Marxist groups, and the general public.

They were regarded as a terrorist organization by the Government of Peru, as well as by Japan, the European Union, the United States and Canada.

The year I travelled to meet Yeny was 1991. This was my first and, so far, only visit to a country where military tanks and soldiers were evident on many corners.

My foster child, Yeny, lived in the City of Puno in Peru. And it was from this city that World Vision workers departed. Shining Path founder, Abimael Guzman was captured in 1992.

I visited in the home of Yeny Ponce, her mother, and sisters .............

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