Lidia Flores, the leader of the National Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Persons of Peru, poses for a portrait in Ayacucho, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Flores’ husband was killed in Peru’s internal armed conflict (1980-2000). (AP Photo/Silvio La Rosa)
Peru’s disappeared: Dozens look for relatives lost to violence. A woman who knows their sorrow helps
Many of the thousands who have disappeared in Latin America over decades have never been found, presumed victims of dictatorships, insurgencies, or organized crime. While the mass disappearances in Argentina and Chile are well known, similarly wrenching traumas elsewhere in the region have received far less attention. Over several months, religion reporter Maria Teresa Hernandez […]
JAN. 31, 2025
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