[7] In 2018, the MPCP formed an alliance with the Plurinational Association of Tawantinsuyo Reservists, an ethnocacerist group, called the United Democratic Andean Revolutionary Front of Peru (Spanish: Frente Unido Democrático Andino Revolucionario del Perú).

However, the MPCP itself has been accused of utilizing similar tactics to those of Guzmán, including slavery of indigenous peoples,[9][need quotation to verify] recruitment of children for use as child soldiers,[10] and terrorist attacks against civilians and members of the Peruvian government, among other human rights violations.

The Peruvian military said that the group was responsible for the San Miguel del Ene attack on 23 May 2021, which resulted in the deaths of 18 people in the Satipo Province of Peru.

[11][12] Following the capture of Abimael Guzmán, the founder and leader of the Shining Path, on 12 September 1992, a ceasefire agreement was reached with the government of then-Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori the subsequent year.

The faction opposed to the ceasefire referred to themselves as Sendero Luminoso-Proseguir (Shining Path-Onward) and continued to carry out armed struggle against the Peruvian state.

[23] In 2018, the MPCP announced an alliance with the ethnocacerist Plurinational Association of Tawantinsuyo Reservists (ASPRET), called the United Democratic Andean Revolutionary Front of Peru.

[7] A video recorded on 22 April 2017, previously showed Eddy Villarroel Medina, the leader of ASPRET, meeting with Comrade José.

[26] The leaflets additionally called for a boycott of the 6 June election, accusing of treason those who voted for Keiko Fujimori of the right-wing Popular Force party.