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: ‘They shot them down like animals’: Massacre in Peru’s Ayacucho
Friends and relatives grieve during the funeral of Jose Luis Aguilar, 22, who was killed by long-range projectiles following clashes between protesters and armed forces in an attempt to take over the ...
News Peru » Ayacucho » History: Peru's disappeared: Dozens look for relatives lost to violence. A woman who knows their sorrow helps
AYACUCHO, Perú — The easiest thing might have been to let go. To refresh the flowers at her husband’s grave and find comfort in retrieving his bones, a milestone in a country where 20,000 people ...
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: ‘They Shot Them Down Like Animals’: Massacre at Peru’s Ayacucho
On December 15, 2022, while helicopters flew overhead, members of Peru’s national army shot down civilians with live bullets in the outskirts of the city of Ayacucho. This action was in response to a ...