Peru News » Ayacucho News Peru » Ayacucho » Security: 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 » Security: Peru protesters, including children, killed in ‘extrajudicial executions’ by security forces, Amnesty finds
Peruvian security forces carried out widespread attacks against protestors with “extrajudicial executions “and “widespread use of lethal ammunition” earlier this year, while trying to contain mass ...
News Peru » Ayacucho » Security: 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 » Security: ‘They shot them down like animals’: Massacre at Peru’s Ayacucho
While helicopters flew overhead, members of Peru’s national army shot down civilians with live bullets in the outskirts of the city of Ayacucho on December 15. This action was in response to a ...
News Peru » Ayacucho » Security: Peru investigating security force role in protest deaths
Peru has been engulfed in relentless, sometimes violent protests following the removal from office of leftist President Pedro Castillo on December 7. According to the country's ombudsman, at least ...