The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo

A recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement in their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People’s War– “shining trenches of combat”. This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.