Peru minister resigns after suggesting Shining Path rebels had CIA support

Hector Bejar is first cabinet member to fall under leftist President Pedro Castillo after video dated last year emerged

Peru's foreign minister has resigned after footage emerged in which he suggested that a Maoist rebel group that killed tens of thousands of Peruvians had received support from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), making him the first cabinet member to fall under leftist President Pedro Castillo.

Hector Bejar, 85, who in his youth participated in a socialist guerrilla movement, had said he believed the Shining Path rebel group had emerged in part because of backing from the US Central Intelligence Agency.