Miguel La Serna - With Masses and Arms: Perus Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement

It has been both rewarding and challenging writing this book: rewarding in that I have benefited from the generous support of others; challenging to do justice to their wisdom and guidance. I thank my Peruvianist colleagues Jos Carlos Agero, Carlos Aguirre, Renzo Aroni, Florence Babb, Julin Berrocal, Kathryn Burns, Ivn Caro, Ricardo Caro, Carlos Contreras, Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Ortega, Paulo Drinot, Gustavo Gorriti, Shane Greene, Jaymie Patricia Heilman, Walter Huaman, Luca Luna Victoria Indacochea, Marie Manrique, Mario Miguel Meza, Diana Miloslavich, Ral Necochea, Jorge Ortz Sotelo, Jos Luis Rnique, and Tony Zapata for their many insights, conversations, and feedback at various stages of the research and writing process. Ruth Borja, Roberto Bustamante, Sebastin Chvez Wurm, Karina Fernndez Gonzlez, Marcelita Gutirrez, Oscar Medrano, Pablo Rojas, Melissa Snchez, and Santiago Tamay Silva helped me locate crucial archival records, for which I am forever grateful. I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Oscar Arriola, Liliana Gliksman, Nancy Madrid, Marco Miyashiro, Ricardo Noriega Salaverry, Mario Rossi, Vladimir Uapillco, Iris Valladares, and especially Lori Berenson and Anah Durand for putting me in contact with critical interview subjects on both sides of the political divide.

My professional community in the United States was a rock of support. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sharon Anderson, Joyce Loftin, Jennifer Parker, and Beatriz Riefkhol were always willing to put up with my queries, requests for administrative and financial support, and other nuisances along the way. My colleagues Fitz Brundage, Emily Burrill, Sebastin Carassai, John Chasteen, Rudi Colloredo Mansfeld, Mariana Dantas, Kathleen DuVal, Oswaldo Estrada, Joe Glatthaar, Jacqueline Hagan, Karen Hagemann, Jonathan Hartlyn, Emil Keme, Lisa Lindsay, Malinda Maynor Lowery, Susan Pennybacker, Jos Juan Prez Melndez, Cynthia Radding, Julie Reed, Marian Schlotterbeck, Tatiana Seijas, William Sturkey, Ben Waterhouse, Brett Whalen, and Luise White offered invaluable moral and intellectual support. I am most grateful to Martha Espinosa, Stark Harbour, Emma Macneil, Sydney Marshall, Danielle McIvor, Kenneth Neggy, Elizabeth Stillwell, Emily Taylor, and Diana Torres for their thoughtful comments on my penultimate draft. Ponciano Del Pino, Lou Prez, Orin Starn, Brendan Thornton, and Chuck Walker deserve special mention for exhibiting that special blend of mentorship, scholarly exchange, and friendship. I am grateful to the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities for providing me with a Faculty Fellowship to work on this project. There, Jan Bardsley, Michelle Berger, Tim Carter, Banu Gokariskel, Mark Katz, Heidi Kim, Enrique Neblett, lvaro Reyes, and Milada Vachudova provided the stimulating intellectual incubator in which many of the books key ideas and concepts metastasized. Down the road at UNC Press, my editor Elaine Maisner helped breathe life into this project. If this book is of any value to readers, I invite them to join me in thanking Elaine for her incredible patience, guidance, and encouragement at every step of the journey.

My family and friends in the United States and Peru have always kept me going. My Peruvian family, Carlos, Karlos, Korah, Mara, Matas, Olenka, Pepe, Piotr, Ricardo, Teresa, Veronica, and Yolanda La Serna, offered unwavering support. My parents, Sabad and Susan, sent me off into the field with much love, encouragement, and no small amount of concern for my well-being, for which I am truly grateful. I am indebted to Carmen and Michael Betts for offering the kind of moral, emotional, and childcare support usually reserved for family. Thank you to Jonathan Woody for always being there in a pinch. Finally, I thank Jillian Joy, Micaela Renee, and Mateo Gael La Serna for enduring all the trips, late nights, drafts, rewrites, deadlines, and headaches along the way. You are my life, my heart, my soul. Los quiero hoy, ms que ayer, pero no tanto como maana.

With Masses and Arms