Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sendero_luminoso

1 sense of sendero luminoso

Sense 1
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")
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)