Peru News » Ayacucho News Peru » Ayacucho » History: Peruvian families demand reparations for protester deaths amid reminders of a painful past
“If something happens to me, don’t cry,” Leonardo Hancco told his wife, Ruth Barcena, the morning of December 15 in Peru’s southern city of Ayacucho. The 32-year-old taxi driver and father of a ...
News Peru » Ayacucho » History: Peru asset seizure office in Ayacucho leads confiscations under controversial Extinction of Domain Law
Peru’s public prosecutor announced Monday that its Extinction of Domain prosecutor in Ayacucho is the office with the highest number of rulings uner the country’s controversial asset forfeiture law.
News Peru » Ayacucho » History: Peru president grabbed, shaken during visit to Ayacucho
Lima, Jan 20 (EFE).- Peru’s President Dina Boluarte was grabbed and shaken on Saturday by a woman who circumvented security measures in the southern Andean region of Ayacucho, where 10 people were ...
News Peru » Ayacucho » History: High risk yet home to thousands: the makeshift towns at the mercy of landslides and floods in Peru
Ayacucho's informal neighbourhoods balance precariously on steep mountain slopes that surround the city. Photograph: Douwe den Held Like many informal settlements, communities that have sprung up on ...
News Peru » Ayacucho » History: She lost her partner in the protests. Then her twins. She’s still at it.
AYACUCHO, Peru — It was nearly two days after the bullet tore into Leonardo Hancco Chacca’s abdomen. Now his organs were failing. The heavy machinery operator had been shot while protesting the ...