Editing Shining Path (section)

== In popular culture ==
American hard rock band [[Guns N' Roses]] quotes a speech by a Shining Path officer in their 1990 song "[[Civil War (song)|Civil War]]", as saying "We practice selective annihilation of mayors and government officials, for example, to create a vacuum, then we fill that vacuum. As popular war advances, peace is closer."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-07-09-8902150889-story.html|title='More War Will Bring Peace,' Say Peru's Maoists After 15,000 Die|last=de Lama|first=George|date=9 July 1989|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=7 March 2019}}</ref>

American rock band [[Rage Against the Machine]] released a music video for their 1993 song "[[Bombtrack]]" as a response to the arrest of Abimael Guzman the previous year. The video expresses support for Guzman and the Shining Path, featuring various clips of the organization's activities, as well as showing the band in a cage to mimic Guzman's imprisonment.<ref>{{cite web |last=Antonio |first=Zoila |translator-last=Sutterman |translator-first=Anthony |title=Disputed reality: 'Bombtrack' and Peru's internal armed conflict The song remains controversial to this day in Peru |url=https://globalvoices.org/2022/01/07/disputed-reality-bombtrack-and-perus-internal-armed-conflict/ |date=7 January 2022 |access-date=5 July 2022 |publisher=GlobalVoices}}</ref>

=== Other fictional depictions ===
* ''The Vision of Elena Silves: A Novel'' by [[Nicholas Shakespeare]]
* ''[[The Dancer Upstairs]]: A Novel'' by [[Nicholas Shakespeare]], {{ISBN|0-385-72107-2}}.
* ''Strange Tunnels Disappearing'' by [[Gary Ley]], {{ISBN|1-85411-302-X}}.
* ''The Evening News'', by [[Arthur Hailey]], {{ISBN|0-385-50424-1}}.
* ''[[Death in the Andes]]'', by [[Mario Vargas Llosa]], {{ISBN|0-14-026215-6}}.
* ''War Cries'', a first-season episode of ''[[JAG (TV series)|JAG]]''.
* ''[[Escape from L.A.]]'' a movie starring [[Kurt Russell]]
* ''[[Red April]]'': a novel by [[Santiago Roncagliolo]]
* ''[[The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures]]'', a play by [[Tony Kushner]]