Shining Path the Peruvian Army. According to the government, there were approximately 7,226 "comités de auto defensa" as of 2005; almost 4,000 are located in the central region of Peru, the stronghold of the Shining Path. The Peruvian government also cracked down on the Shining Path in other ways. Military personnel were dispatched to areas dominated by the Shining Path, especially Ayacucho, to fight the rebels. Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Apurimacwere, and Huanuco were declared emergency zones, allowing for some constitutional rights to be suspended in those areas. Initial government efforts to fight the Shining Path were not very effective or promising. Military units
Communist Party of the Catalan People then passed to this new party militants and several different local organizations like the Santa Coloma de Gramanet which establishes its headquarters. The PCPC is established in different areas such as Lleida in Catalonia, Tarragona and especially in the province of Barcelona, with an important base for militants in Hospitalet, Barcelona city and Santa Coloma de Gramanet. Communist Party of the Catalan People The Communist Party of the Catalan People (, PCPC), is a Marxist-Leninist Communist Party in Catalonia (Spain), which works in cooperation with the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain, and whose primary objective is the establishment