Get Shining Path an international sponsor

Find some country or countries to sponsor and/or assist Shining Path, the way, for example, the Chinese supported the Khmer Rouge or the USA backed the Nicaraguan contras. The support can be material(eg. money and guns), diplomatic(pushing for Shining Path to get some sort of UN recognition), or both.

As much as possible, try to keep the ideological and geopolitical orientations of the various national governments the same as OTL. In other words, nothing like "The Gang Of Four stay in power and commit China to supporting crazy Maoist groups all over the world". That said, some minor tweaking is probably inevitable.
 
Find some country or countries to sponsor and/or assist Shining Path, the way, for example, the Chinese supported the Khmer Rouge or the USA backed the Nicaraguan contras. The support can be material(eg. money and guns), diplomatic(pushing for Shining Path to get some sort of UN recognition), or both.

As much as possible, try to keep the ideological and geopolitical orientations of the various national governments the same as OTL. In other words, nothing like "The Gang Of Four stay in power and commit China to supporting crazy Maoist groups all over the world". That said, some minor tweaking is probably inevitable.

Libya supposedly gave them guns OTL.
 
Libya supposedly gave them guns OTL.

'Twoud seem you are correct, though information about that is quite hard to come by. This book has one fleeting reference, on page 17, listing Shining Path along with a bunch of other groups that got Libyan aid. The index lists another page as mentioning Shining Path, but I couldn't find the reference.
 

nbcman

Donor
What about a non-government group like the FARC? Both groups obtained a substantial amount of revenue from coca production. Maybe they could pool resources and training?
 
What about a non-government group like the FARC? Both groups obtained a substantial amount of revenue from coca production. Maybe they could pool resources and training?

Which I guess raises the question as to why they didn't get together, at least in theory, IOTL.

One thing, Maoists are kinda like the Jehovah's Witnesses of the left, in that they tend not to be very ecumenical in their approach, and want little if anything to do with other factions(eg. you rarely hear about them pursuing entryist strategies into social-democratic parties, the way trotskyists do). So it's possible that Shining Path would not have wanted an alliance with FARC anyway.
 
Don:

Thanks. I was thinking more of when the Shining Path was in its heyday, but that is interesting info nonetheless.
 
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