Peru News » Huancavelica News Peru » Huancavelica » Events: Peru: Memorial House in Huancavelica opens its doors
News channel or source: https://www.icrc.org/en/document/peru-memorial-house-huancavelica-opens-its-doors
Published on: Thursday 21 September 2023
On one side of Huancavelica's main square sits a large house dedicated to the memory of those who went missing between 1980 and 2000 in the violence that engulfed Peru. When sunlight streams into the ...
News Peru » Huancavelica » Events: The 500-year-old toxic legacy of Peru’s ‘Mine of Death’
News channel or source: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2024/1400/world/500-year-old-toxic-legacy-perus-mine-death
Published on: Thursday 22 February 2024
High in the Peruvian Andes, in the southeastern region of Huancavelica, lies a brown, treeless mountaintop — the scars of the now-boarded-up Santa Bárbara mercury mine. The mine was once the epicentre ...