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I've heard those Indios can hump a rucksack up and down mountains all day and night like nobody's business, as long as they get their ration of coca leaves.

Actually, one of the great "untold lessons" of how to fight terrorism was learned in the Andes, where Fujimori armed the peasants, forming local militias. After that, the Senderos couldn't roam at will, camping out in villages at gunpoint. Once they were forced to avoid villages, it was over.

Those Senderos were (are) the Chechnyans of the west....Fujimora deserved a medal....you know though.. we were there too.....off the record of course...now Guzman is rotting in prison forever...good damn riddance. I think he's quite ill...I got croc tears falling all over my keyboard. I know folks in Miraflores (posher part of Lima) that would have killed Guzman themselves if given the chance. I used to go to Peru on ship business....pesca de arena....fish meal. Damn dry along the coast. It was a little hairy but nothing like West Africa or the Pacific coast of C-bo or Nica when our boys were close by giving the Sandies fits. Not a place I'd recommend really unless you want to do the Machu Pichu thing. You had to buy bunkers from the Peruvian Navy...always watered down too...and always lightered at sea...that was hairy.

I forgot.....din't you love it when the Peruvian spec ops guys (again with our unofficial help) stormed the Japanese embassy during the hostage crisis. Then they disposed of all the terrs including the chick terrs.....and only lost I think one hostage and one good guy. Damn fine work for a third world bunch. Made me proud. No Island paradise detention centers for those Terrs...LOL. The average Peruano is sick of the Senderos and the Tupac????whatever they are called Amaru???