Noun sendero luminoso has 1 sense
- Shining Path, Sendero Luminoso, SL - a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade; "Shining Path has been responsible for 30,000 deaths"
--1 is a kind of terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO
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