Comrade Artemio: 'we were guilty of abuses and mistakes'

Deep in Peru's central jungle, the last of a generation of Latin American revolutionaries continues to fight the state. Artemio is the only member of the original Shining Path leadership who is still free and alive, and he wants to lay down his arms. After close to 30 years living in the bush and fighting a guerrilla war he says the military fight is over but the political one must continue. Yet it will be almost impossible for Artemio to make a transition into civilian life. The best he can do is to negotiate the terms of his surrender. Terms that both he and the Peruvian state will accept.
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