Shining Path "drastically and swiftly" to any violent action. In September that same year, a comprehensive sweep by police in five cities found 17 suspected members. According to the interior minister, eight of the arrested were school teachers and high-level school administrators. Despite these arrests, the Shining Path continued to exist in Peru. On December 22, 2005, the Shining Path ambushed a police patrol in the Huánuco region, killing eight. Later that day they wounded an additional two police officers. In response, then President Alejandro Toledo declared a state of emergency in Huánuco, and gave the police the power to search houses
History of the Portuguese Communist Party Afghanistan, Palestine, Cuba, and the Basque Country are constant concerns in the Party's agenda. Since the election of 2015, the Party supports the government of António Costa together with the Left Bloc. "In Portuguese": "In English": History of the Portuguese Communist Party The history of the Portuguese Communist Party (, , or PCP), spans a period of more than 92 years, since its foundation in 1921 as the Portuguese section of the Communist International (Comintern) to the present. The Party is still an active force within Portuguese society. After its foundation, the party experienced little time as a legal party