On March 15, 1993, the U.S. magazine The Nation introduced the column of Peruvian journalist Sonia Goldenberg as a "leftist" critic of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP). The article criticizes the signers of a human rights ad paid for by U.S. supporters of the Peruvian Revolution that appeared in The Village Voice in January 1993. The ad "condemns the genocide of 100 political prisoners and prisoners of war at the prison of Cantogrande in Lima, Peru" by the Fujimori dictatorship. Among the signers were former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Noam Chomsky, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Beth Lamont and others. Goldenberg, using as a front the Peru Peace Network, a front of the United Left (IU) and a few NGOs working in Peru (the IU was part of the coalition government with Fujimori at the time) described in the article that she interrogated each of the signers of the ad trying to determine whether they support PCP and giving them distorted fact sheets on what she calls "the Shining Path" so they could withdraw their support for the ad.
The article by Goldenberg published in The Nation reads: "Shining Path murders civilian non-combatants, engineers, priests, teachers, journalists and peasants." [an identical extract of the CIA Fact Book of 1992 that provides not an iota of evidence to back up such slander] Moreover, Goldenberg quotes discredited Senderologist Robin Kirk who frequently falsifies quotes from the PCP, especially its position on People's Rights as opposed to the U.S. government manipulation of Human Rights: "Sendero kills hundreds of Mayors and leftists, (see Kirk's "SL War on Hope" of March 30, 1993 The Nation). Again without a shred of evidence she mumbles: "SL tortures and kills captured prisoners, including children... SL has carried out 3,600 killings in 3 years (!) And 80% are civilians" [a replica of the government's disinformation campaign, published by the "leftist" The Nation.]
Finally, Goldenberg previews the regime's sinister plan, the hoax of peace agreement, to be implemented by the Intelligence Services few months later: "With Sendero weakened, a wonderful opportunity for negotiations presents itself. For the first time, it may be possible to put pressure on both the government and rebels -in prison- to reach an agreement, monitored by the U.N., to respect basic human rights and the Geneva accords." In other words, to capitulate in exchange for nothing, like the FMLN did in El Salvador. The PCP denounced this travesty of peace as a counterrevolutionary hoax and crushed it with more People's War.
Two years later, Goldenberg unmasked. In 1995, the Peruvian bourgeois press La Republica reported that Sonia Goldenberg was working as a "journalist" for the National Intelligence Services (SIN), and it turns out that as of November 1996 she is the Secretary of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in the Fujimori regime. It was revealed also that at the time of Goldenberg's anti-PCP campaign in the "leftist" The Nation and other reactionary papers in the world, Goldenberg's father Efrain Goldenberg Schreiber, was Fujimori's Foreign Minister![Daily Expreso, October 22, 1996] With "leftists" such as The Nation and Goldenberg who needs the CIA and the KGB!