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August 4, 12:14 AMSouth America Headlines ExaminerJuan Hidalgo

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The new attack by terrorist organization "Sendero Luminoso" in Peru has reopened a serious wound and shown the weakness of a government that until now cannot control this problem since President Alan Garcia assumed power. Problem has been addressed by two ministers of the Interior who had to resign into the few results to combat the problem of subversion.

This time three policemen and two women were killed in the latest attack occurred between Saturday night and Sunday morning at a police post in the department of Ayacucho, in southeast of the country where the terrorist movement originated in 1980 and terrorized over a decade the country which left a balance of more than 25 thousand dead.
The attack took place shortly after the holidays take place in Peru by Independence Day, in the last week of July, when is the traditional presidential message, which also received criticism of the opposition for a perceived lack of coordination between the head of state Alan Garcia with his ministers on plans to combat the crime.

Now the criticism against the government have increased in relation to anti-terrorism plan called VRAE comprising the Andean region where the terrorist remnant is concentrated and also where there are coca plantations that according to analysts, is funding terrorist activities through drug trafficking in the area.

There was not a long time since the previous rebel attack in Ayacucho in April that left 15 dead. Before on October 10 last year, 19 people were killed including soldiers and civilians during an attack in Huancavelica, adjacent apartment. Other was in November the same year in Ayacucho where three soldiers were killed by terrorists.
Each attack was followed by announcements of ministers of the Interior as Luis Alva Castro and Mercedes Cabanillas --who faced the previous attacks—in strengthening the foundations and strategies contrasubversivas intelligence, but apparently after the events, it looks that terrorists have some control of the southern Andes of Peru. We'll see how long the new minister Octavio Salazar, who took office last month, stays in charge.
 

CAPTION: Minister Octavio Salazar. FOTO: ANDINA/ Rafael Cornejo