[1] Though a core group of activists had formed as early as 1964 with Abimael Guzmán, Sendero Luminoso was not formally founded until 1970 as an extension of the Peru Communist Party (PCP).

[citation needed] Guzmán, also referred to as Chairman or Presidente Gonzalo, believed the revolution would come about through Maoist principles.

[2] In principle, an asymmetric attack never occurs in isolation; the selection of the target is the first step in the cycle of a terrorist assignment or undertaking.

[citation needed] The assault on the prison in Ayacucho was due to the selection by the leader of the Sendero Luminoso, Abimael Guzman, predominantly underground and asymmetric ideologically motivated.

[citation needed] Sendero Luminoso, as a non-state actor, used several factors to achieve its objective: deception, surprise, speed, movement, and use of weapons in an unexpected way to try to substantially alter the scene of fighting breaking all the paradigms and principles of war.

[citation needed] In this guerrilla war, important factors in determining the target included: Abimael Guzmán (led by Mao Zedong's communist ideals) put into practice what he learned in the Political-Military School of Nanking Shanghai by training Latin American activists.

Abimael took actions of intelligence, security, and planned in secret somewhere in Lima, the assault on the prison in Ayacucho.

[3] "Having determined the objective, we proceeded to choose the cells with qualified personnel to carry out the terrorist attack, which involved forming and much depends on the chosen action and tactics, and the importance of the primary target and secondary collateral for the implementation of diversionary maneuvers on the local security forces... "Faceless War" - Vladimiro Montesinos.

The Interior Minister was informed, prepared to reinforce the jail with 20 men, and ordered measures were taken to the department head of the Republican Guard, Commander Victor de la Cruz.

The staff of the intelligence director of the Republican Guard in Lima contacted the head of the Huamanga prison Rosember the south Lieutenant Herbert, who gave the voice alarm.

The reinforcements arrived, but Commander Victor de la Cruz, decided to put to rest in his quarters.

The truck driver and his assistant were held at gunpoint and restrained at the height of the reservoir of Urbanization Mariscal Cáceres by the rebels.

The attack was more intense at the main entrance of the prison, which housed the largest number of Republican guards.

In Lima, Lopez Marines established radio contact with staff in Ayacucho; he only heard cries of despair in the communications coming from the barracks attack.

Captain Linares Bay and the sinchis, after holding a gun battle Senderistas and pushing back the first sector attacking GC, had continued forward, until arriving near the prison.

Thirty-three attackers (one hundred police report subversive) released seventy-eight Senderistas who had comrades who were Edith Lagos and Pérez Huarancca Hildebrand.

Reduced to seven Republican Guard, seized their weapons and settled, released all the common criminals and Senderistas, gathered in the courtyard, raised a red flag with hammer and sickle, singing the Internationale and out the door.

After serving with the primary, secondary, and generating chaos, they proceed to a withdrawal and dispersed using predetermined escape routes.

They deal with issues: Evolution of the guerrilla war and criticisms of Peruvian politics from a Marxist–Leninist viewpoint and M. In June 1982, the Ayacucho area committee performed the retransmission of the Second National Conference.

- Partners - I say, on behalf of the Communist Party of Peru, and commissioned by the central committee, as a military commander and being in the leadership of the guerrilla zone, I start the second national conference.

Second point, a position where there would be room for two-line struggle, the Maoist method of resolving contradictions to advance through criticism and self-criticism.

Similarly, broadcast Clara Gonzalo's words about what he called four questions about power: how to conquer it, they give out how to keep it, share it with.

The military campaign was carried out in phases designed by Gonzalo Thought: preparation, initiation, development, auction, and complement.